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I find it rather difficult in the evening of my life to recollect everything that happened as time has erased from memory many things, especially relating to childhood and youth.

— Georgy Zhukov The Memoirs of Marshal Zhukov (1971)

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

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