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Winning depended to a large extent on the determination of the troops and the officers. The certainty that we were going to win kept up everyone's spirits, from privates to generals.

— Georgy Zhukov

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

We proceeded from the knowledge that we would have to fight a battle-wise, strong and stubborn enemy.

The Memoirs of Marshal Zhukov (1971)

If you feel that the Chief of the General Staff talks only rubbish, my place is not here. Better to give me a command at the front where I can be of better use!

There's no smoke without fire.

If the nation only knew their hands dripped with innocent blood, it would have met them not with applause but with stones.

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