By seizing the formerly little-known Height 102.0 - the Mamayev Hill - the Red Army fought its way to the fascists' den… — Aleksandr Vasilevsky Copy Share Image
Kill! Kill! In the German race there is nothing but evil; not one among the living, not one among the yet unborn… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
“The man who had asked my name in Obersalzberg in the summer of 1934 had been a dominant personality excluding a spellbinding… — Heinz Linge Copy Share Image
“In this orientation of his concluding strategy he followed ideas that dominated the thinking of the highest American military councils. It reflected… — Ladislas Farago Copy Share Image
“In 1945 I help liberate Berlin. I was six years in Red Army,” Rogov said, his eyes gleaming with the memory.” — Erika Holzer Copy Share Image
One has this image of the Soviet state and the Red Army as being extremely disciplined but in the first four months… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows this, don’t they?” Cohen gaped at him in astonishment. “Blood-sucking ghosts, as a matter of fact,” said Rincewind. “After all,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Once beyond school age, individuals were all expected to carry out two functions: to contribute to production and to take part in… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
“Wolf’s answers rarely praised communism outright, and he didn’t use Marxist language. But almost all of them praised the Red Army or… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“So many engineers were seized that factories came to a halt; so many railway men died that some trains did not run;… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“The organization of the camps in the east revealed a contempt for life, the life of Slavs and Asians and Jews anyway,… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Ravensbrück was built for 3000 prisoners. At its height it held 35,000, 30,000 of whom were killed here. From the beginning, the… — Matthew A. Rozell Copy Share Image
“The Soviets were content to give Hitler the green light for an assault on Poland because they saw ways of capitalizing on… — Robert Gellately Copy Share Image
At the beginning of June 1944, the war was reaching a climax. German troops had been brutalised by the savagery of the… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“The Soviets, knowing that the Americans would permit the German scientists to leave if they wished to, attempted to take advantage of… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
You would think that if neoliberals were in any way honest, after the collapse of the Soviet Union the first thing to… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The Red Army is like a furnace in which all captured soldiers are melted down and transformed the moment they come over. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“How many rapes occurred inside the walls of the main camp of Ravensbrück is hard to put a figure to: so many… — Sarah Helm Copy Share Image
“To those who fought World War II, it was plain enough that Allied bombs were killing huge numbers of German civilians, that… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
The Long March The Red Army is not afraid of hardship on the march, the long march. Ten thousand waters and a… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“The Germans had done their best to evacuate Majdanek before the Red Army arrived, but in their hurry to leave they had… — Keith Lowe Copy Share Image
We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
“Because he was good!’ Smiley snapped, and there was a startled silence everywhere, while he recovered himself. ‘Vladimir’s father was an Estonian… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
