Kliment Voroshilov Quotes

• Whoever can lift a rifle, should have one.

  Kliment Voroshilov

  Should Have, Rifles, Should

  "Epoch's End". Book by Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, translated from French by Hirendranath Mookherjee (p. 149), 1945.

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• If we enjoy the benefits of peace, it is only because we have an excellent armed force and a fine socialist economy. Let us exert all efforts so that our further development may be strong and mighty, so that our numerous enemies may think well and long before they decide to attack our fatherland, and so that if they attack, they will quickly regret it.

  Kliment Voroshilov

  Strong, Regret, Thinking

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• It was necessary to close the front against Germany and that it (victory) depended on us whether it was to be closed or not.

  Kliment Voroshilov

  Victory, Germany, Fronts

  "The unmaking of Adolf Hitler". Book by Eugene Davidson, p. 377, 2004.

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• Voroshilov was a hard-riding, hard-drinking military crony of civil-war days.

  Kliment Voroshilov

  Military, War, Drinking

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• I personally believe that war is highly unlikely.

  Kliment Voroshilov

  War, Believe, Unlikely

  "Forging Stalin's Army: Marshal Tukhachevsky and the Politics of Military Innovation". Book by Sally W. Stoecke, p. 57, 1999.

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• Voroshilov was a striking figure, with a great deal of influence among the workers, so that the degree of influence of the committee on the workers and its success as regards recruitment depended primarily on him.

  Kliment Voroshilov

  Degrees, Influence, Figures

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• The Soviet Union, true to the Leninist principles of respect for the rights and national independence of all peoples great or small, has always been and is guided in its relations with other countries by the principles of mutual respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty, non-aggression, non-intervention in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefits, peaceful coexistence and economic cooperation.

  Kliment Voroshilov

  Country, Integrity, Rights

  "The Nineteen Days: A Broadcaster's Account of the Hungarian Revolution". Book by George R. Urban, 1957.

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