Stalingrad Quotes

• The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements... all this had a very bad effect on morale. Many longed to get across the Volga, to escape the hell of Stalingrad.

  Vasily Chuikov

  Receiving, Reinforcement, Retreat

  "Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army". Book by Catherine Merridale, p. 174, 2007.

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• Surrender is forbidden. Sixth Army will hold their positions to the last man and the last round and by their heroic endurance will make an unforgettable contribution toward the establishment of a defensive front and the salvation of the Western world.

  Adolf Hitler

  Army, Men, Endurance

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• A thousand years hence, every German will speak with awe of Stalingrad and remember that it was there that Germany put the seal on her victory.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Years, Victory, Germany

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• The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Technology, Dachau

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal". Book by Edward Abbey (Chapter 11 "Money Et Cetera", p. 100), 1989.

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• He [Hitler] seemed very depressed and upset about the Stalingrad disaster. He said that one is always liable to look on the black side of things after a defeat, a tendency which can lead one into dangerous and false conclusions.

  Erwin Rommel

  Upset, Black, Looks

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• Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops.

  Friedrich Paulus

  Army, Order, Troops

  "The World Changers" by Bruce Bliven, (p. 171), 1965.

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• By seizing the formerly little-known Height 102.0 - the Mamayev Hill - the Red Army fought its way to the fascists' den - Berlin. We are proud to say that our victory in Stalingrad radically changed the whole situation in the Second World War. And this victory meant that our Motherland had withstood one of the most difficult tests in its history.

  Aleksandr Vasilevsky

  War, Army, Victory

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• Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.

  John F. Kennedy

  Courage, Men, Bravery

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.534, Best Books on

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• I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Brave, Facts

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• The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening resistance. By contrast, the narrowing of the frontage made it easier for the defender to switch his local reserves to any threatened point on the defensive arc.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Army, Levers

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• Take like, say, Obama, he's called "liberal" and he's praised for his "principled objection to the Iraq war". What was his "principled objection"? He says it was a "strategic blunder," like Nazi generals after Stalingrad.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Iraq, Nazi

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• One of these suburbs is actually named Stalingrad, which goes to show that the French have learned nothing about politics since they guillotined all the smart people in 1793.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Smart, People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About Thi”, p.192, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Some of the inspirations I had as far as following that story would be, like, say, "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly," the way they use the Civil War in that, or even the idea that - the movie that Leone was going to do before he died was going to be a movie about the battle of Stalingrad.

  Quentin Tarantino

  War, Inspiration, Ideas

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• No liberal newspaper ever talked about the invasion of Vietnam; they talked about the defense of Vietnam. And then they were saying, "well, it's not going well." Ok, that make them liberal. It's like, it's if we were to say, that going back to, say, Nazi Germany, that Hitler's general staff was liberal after Stalingrad because they were criticizing his tactics: "It was a mistake to fight a two front war, we should've knocked off Englad first," or something.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Mistake, Fighting

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?

  Alexei Sayle

  Dad, Mean, Years

  "Fictional character: Alexei Balowski". "The Young Ones/ Oil", www.imdb.com. 1982.

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