Amazement Quote by Gunther Blumentritt

Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that…

— Jane Smiley

Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that…

— Gerd von Rundstedt

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of…

— Anonymous

Just five years before that the Russians were our allies

— Martin Landau

Where were they when the Russians went down?

— Stacy Keach

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

In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything...…

— Alexander Dubcek

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

“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

My grandfather had come over as a member of the czarist army, to make an arms deal with the British government. Being a blinkered…

— Helen Mirren

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 Russian myths of the Second World War are still intact.

— Norman Davies