Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov. Memories and reflections (№ 201443)

Remembering how and what we, the military, demanded from the industry in the last few months of peace, I see that sometimes we did not take into account all the real economic possibilities of the country. Although with her, so to speak, a departmental point of view we were right.
<...> The military is often blamed for the fact that they are too pressured to accelerate the adoption of a particular sample on Board. They said, "What are you a hothead? When it will be necessary - we will throw planes, tanks, shells."
- Now you scold us, ' replied the military, for what we strongly desired, and if a war happens, then you will say - why do bad required.
Of course, we, military leaders understood that the country has many primary tasks, and everything should be solved on the basis of high politics. But it turned out that a big policy, the head of which was Stalin, in their assessments of the threat of war proceeded from an erroneous assumption.