1930s Quote by Garry Wills

There is scarcely a town or school in Russia from which boys have not run away to the war. Hundreds of girls have gone…

— Stephen Graham

“The documentary and anecdotal evidence is overwhelming and indisputable; the Red Army, which had behaved so heroically on the battlefield, raped the women of…

— Andrew Roberts

Our rooms were bugged, our phones were tapped, and our lawyer's rooms were broken into and their files stolen. We finally had to hire…

— Jimmy Hoffa

“A few days later, from a wall along the river, Martha Gellhorn watched the Soviet troops move on. ‘The army came in like a…

— Geert Mak

“Better by far that famous poster of the Red Army woman with one hand on her hip, another on her bemedaled breast, standing sentry-straight…

— William T. Vollmann

For years before my Navy enlistment, I had studied the Soviet Union and the KGB's history of political intrigue in preparation for a career…

— Malcolm Nance

“with a singlemindedness common only to former Soviet interior-ministry troops and first-year law students”

— Gary Shteyngart

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to…

— Kary Mullis

War is a crime. Ask the Infantry and ask the dead.

— Ernest Hemingway

“The Soviet officers and soldiers deployed to Germany scavenged whatever they could acquire—blue jeans, pornography, and even weapons—to sell or barter on the black…

— Steven Lee Myers

“Don’t call these the “wonders of Soviet heroism" when you write about it. Those wonders really did exist. But first there had to be…

— Svetlana Alexievich

I have always been appalled by the depiction of female CIA operatives.

— Valerie Plame