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

  Vasily Chuikov

  Gun, Soldier, Muzzle

  "199 Days: The Battle for Stalingrad". Book by Edwin Palmer Hoyt, p. 142, 1999.

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• When a decision is taken belatedly, its execution inevitably leads to haste.

  Vasily Chuikov

  Taken, Decision, Execution

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

  Vasily Chuikov

  War, Battle, Kiev

  "The fall of Berlin". Book by Vasiliy Ivanovich Chuikov, 1968.

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