It is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will for victory, clear goals before them, high moral standards, and devotion to the banner under which they go into battle.

We got 16,000 wonderful vehicles. We got all the steel that we make our tanks out of. Of course, we couldn't have done without Western aid.

There are things in Russia which are not as they seem.

There's no smoke without fire.

If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there.

The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use.

Zhukov was the most successful commander of World War II, who fell from grace under Khrushchev, but never lost his place in the pantheon of Soviet heroes.