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Rodion Malinovsky Quotes

1898–1967 Russia

Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky (November 23, 1898 – March 31, 1967) was a Soviet military commander who was Marshal of the Soviet Union, and Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and 1960s. During World War II, he contributed to the major defeat of Nazi Germany at the Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Budapest.

Russia
Communists
Military leaders

Also known as: Malinovsky, Rodion

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Service is service, wherever it occurred. The defense of the fatherland is no small thing.

The Soviet Army, Air Force and Navy are strong enough to thwart any attempts of imperalist reaction to disrupt the peaceful labor of our people or the unity and solidarity of the socialist camp.

Don't touch us, gentlemen imperialists, don't threaten us for you yourselves will fall into the abyss which you are so diligently preparing for us and burn to cinders in nuclear inferno.

Playing down the effective capacity of the USSR to deal a counterblow to the aggressor and exaggeration of their transoceanic capabilities...do not testify to the presence of common sense among the U.S. military.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rodion Malinovsky (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.