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The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation…

— Anatoly Chubais

I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the…

— Anonymous

“The biggest mistake made by German commanders was to have underestimated ‘Ivan’, the ordinary Red Army soldier. They quickly found that surrounded or outnumbered…

— Antony Beevor

The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of…

— Joseph Stalin

“Radio transmitters are not infallible, and Soviet submarines were notorious for equipment failure.”

— Anonymous

“The General Staff of an army in the field is so placed that within wide limits it can control what the public will perceive.…

— Walter Lippmann

“In spite of everything, all the POWs except for the Russians were receiving food parcels and medication from the International Red Cross. The Soviet…

— Anna Timofeeva-Egorova

“Welcome to the First International Red Fighting Brigade of the Moscow Metropolitan in the name of Ernesto Che Guevara!”

— Dmitry Glukhovsky

One has this image of the Soviet state and the Red Army as being extremely disciplined but in the first four months of 1945…

— Antony Beevor

“(23) War-fighting commanders may find themselves bereft of communications faculties on which they have become reliant in peacetime training. Most forms of radio-transmissions can”

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

As far as I know, the line of communication between the U.S. and Russia continues to be open and the battlefield commanders are able…

— Rex W. Tillerson

“Only those who experienced our war in the East can truly picture its scale and ferocity. There are many of us who were there;…

— Wolfgang Faust