Adverse Quote by Gerd von Rundstedt

I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in…

— Winston Churchill

With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force…

— Gunther Blumentritt

All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so…

— Paul von Hindenburg

The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements... all this had a very bad effect…

— Vasily Chuikov

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

— Joseph Stalin

Russia on its path has oftentimes discussed and overdiscussed what had happened earlier, instead of moving forward. The result is always the same: It…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

“In the last days before the attack a strange feeling, not so much of confidence as of fatalism, pervaded the German tank forces- if…

— Alan Clark

Where were they when the Russians went down?

— Stacy Keach

There was obviously never any help from the Russians. I don't even know what the Russians would have done.

— Brad Parscale

Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The German Air Force was not sufficient to protect the sea crossing on its own. While the leading part of the forces might have…

— Anonymous

It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than retreat. Advance…

— Ian Fleming