Army Quote by Stephen Kinzer

In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions,…

— Paul von Hindenburg

In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions,…

— Paul von Hindenburg

“By 1944, three years later, the ordeal and the turnabout had both been spectacular. The Soviet Union had lost as many as 20 million…

— C.J. Chivers

Every military scenario that the Russians basically engage in their annual exercises, either on their western or eastern flank, always involved some kind of…

— Fiona Hill

No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!

— Charles de Gaulle

“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

“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

In mass cruelty, the expulsions of Germans ordered by the Russians fall not very far short of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis.

— Bertrand Russell

The war against Russia is an important chapter in the German nation's struggle for existence. [...] The objective of this battle must be the…

— Franz Halder

In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he made one…

— Winston Churchill

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

— Noam Chomsky

“By the forty-second day from mobilisation, the war in the west would have been won and the victorious German army freed to take the…

— John Keegan