Joseph Stalin Quotes about Army

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!

It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.

Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.

This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise. If now there is not a communist government in Paris, this is only because Russia has no an army which can reach Paris in 1945.

There is no doubt that the absence of a second front in Europe considerably relieves the position of the German Army, nor can there be any doubt that the appearance of a second front on the Continent of Europe - and undoubtedly this will appear in the near future - will essentially relieve the position of our armies to the detriment of the German Army.