Soviet Army Quotes

#1. 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 ... I can only conjecture what could have happened.

Alexander Dubcek

#2. The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.

Antony Beevor

#3. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#4. Every infantryman in the Soviet Army carries with him a small spade. When he is given the order to halt he immediately lies flat and starts to dig a hole in the ground beside him.

Viktor Suvorov

#5. My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army.

Amity Gaige

#6. Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.

Natan Sharansky

#7. You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

Natalie Portman

#8. The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.

Mitch Daniels

#9. Experience what's happening now, and make your surroundings real. You don't have to invent an environment: it already exists.

T. J. Jagodowski

#10. One has this image of the Soviet state and the Red Army as being extremely disciplined but in the first four months of 1945 their soldiers were completely out of control.

Antony Beevor

#11. Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.

John Podhoretz

#12. We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union.

Frank Knox

#13. An army of the people is invincible!

Mao Zedong

#14. In-depth reporting is expensive. It is much cheaper to have people sit around or on remotes and talk about politics like it's baseball. But there is also a predetermined intent in terms of what is reported and how it is reported, and the degree to which a story is pushed. Both have bad effects.

Robert Kane Pappas

#15. Of course, the kind of support that Cuba could give us was very limited when it came to building up our army, since they didn't manufacture armaments in the quantities that we required. So we turned to Algeria and the Soviet Union for support.

Daniel Ortega

#16. Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

Vladimir Lenin

#17. The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages ... onward, to victory!

Joseph Stalin