Old man Quote by John Reed

“out my cigarettes, break each one in half and give them to the Russians. They bow to me and then light the cigarettes. Now…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“They stopped briefly at an inn near the town of Altaussee, a tidy village tucked in the woods near a pristine alpine lake. Outside,…

— Robert M. Edsel

“Rostov was not listening to the soldier. He looked at the snowflakes dancing above the fire and remembered the Russian winter with a warm,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“enough vodka to kill a Russian army.”

— A.G. Riddle

“One day a greasy landowner will drag the peasants before the Zembro Court for trespass, and the next, if it's a holiday, he will…

— Anton Checkov

“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

“You and the Germans, you have your super- soldiers, your secret weapons... but we Russians, we have nothing but our winter.”

— Vasily Karpov

“There was bread enough for us in the army, on the front line. We were fed by the Russian people. And no one had…

— Vasily Grossman

“In the daytime, I know that they're (Russians) close. But at night, my optimism abandons me, I buckle. The night is German, and who…

— Ana Novac

“You're looking a bit bolshy. [...] Like a Bolshevik, [...] Someone about to start a revolution.”

— Rachel Hawkins

“So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)”

— Robert Walser