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Stalin I.V.
About Com. Kotovsky


A source: Stalin I.V. Works. - T. 8. - M.: OGIZ; State publishing house of political literature, 1948. S. 99.

I knew Comrade Kotovsky as an exemplary party member, an experienced military organizer and a skilled commander.

I remember him especially well on the Polish front in 1920, when Comrade Budyonny was breaking through to Zhitomir in the rear of the Polish army, and Kotovsky led his cavalry brigade on desperately bold raids on the Kyiv army of the Poles. He was a storm of the White Poles, for he knew how to “crush” them like no one else, as the Red Army soldiers used to say then.

The bravest among our modest commanders and the most modest among the brave - this is how I remember Comrade Kotovsky.

Eternal memory and glory to him.


I. Stalin

"Communist" (Kharkov)

No. 43 (1828), February 23, 1926