Vasily Chuikov quotes
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“The battle of Kursk... the forcing of the Dnieper... and the liberation of Kiev, left Hitlerite Germany facing catastrophe.”
-- Vasily ChuikovSource : "The fall of Berlin". Book by Vasiliy Ivanovich Chuikov, 1968.
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“The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements... all this had a very bad effect on morale. Many longed to get across the Volga, to escape the hell of Stalingrad.”
-- Vasily ChuikovSource : "Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army". Book by Catherine Merridale, p. 174, 2007.
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“Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun.”
-- Vasily ChuikovSource : "199 Days: The Battle for Stalingrad". Book by Edwin Palmer Hoyt, p. 142, 1999.
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“When a decision is taken belatedly, its execution inevitably leads to haste.”
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Source : A. J. Muste's statement of 1941, as quoted in Howard Zinn "A People's History" (p. 416), 1980, and later quoted in Howard Zinn "The Twentieth Century: A People's History" (p. 159), May 9, 1984.
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“Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.”
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Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
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“Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.”
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Source : A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press
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“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”
Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
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