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He ordered us to stand fast and save Stalingrad. So we knew then that it was 'do or die.' We could not retreat.

— Vasily Chuikov

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Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun.

I would not have believed such an inferno could open up on earth. Men died but they did not retreat.

There are those who propose that both sides remove all their forces from Germany. That's a silly idea. The Germans hate us; we couldn't think of removing our forces from Germany.

The battle of Kursk... the forcing of the Dnieper... and the liberation of Kiev, left Hitlerite Germany facing catastrophe.

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