So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
“The biggest mistake made by German commanders was to have underestimated ‘Ivan’, the ordinary Red Army soldier. They quickly found that surrounded… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
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
“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
“The Soviet officers and soldiers deployed to Germany scavenged whatever they could acquire—blue jeans, pornography, and even weapons—to sell or barter on… — Steven Lee Myers Copy Share Image
It was my view that the catastrophe. . . . could have been avoided if Vasilevsky had taken the position he should… — Aleksandr Vasilevsky Copy Share Image
My dad was in the Swedish armed forces, he was always reading up on different weapons from the Americans and Soviets. When… — Dolph Lundgren 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 retaliation came in all varieties. One variety came largely from the Soviet soldiers. When they entered East Prussia in January, their… — Geert Mak 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
“In return for their faithful service, they would receive Red Army food rations, which amounted to a generous ladle, twice daily, from… — Alan Furst 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 the Soviet Union, for example, shooting or jailing political opponents at first helped the Communist Party and then Josef Stalin gain… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
“These marches, which left surviving Jews in Germany itself, were the last of the Nazi atrocities. The Belarusian Front of the Red… — Anonymous 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
“When the riot police came and beat the students in late November, a new group, the Afghan veterans, came to the Maidan.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The documentary and anecdotal evidence is overwhelming and indisputable; the Red Army, which had behaved so heroically on the battlefield, raped the… — Andrew Roberts 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
“That was his moment in Leningrad, on an empty street, when his life became possible—when Alexander became possible. There he stood as… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“Better by far that famous poster of the Red Army woman with one hand on her hip, another on her bemedaled breast,… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
