Russian Civil War/aftermath

Famous quotes containing the words russian, civil, war and/or aftermath:

    “I won the battle the wrong way when our worthy Russian generals were losing it the right way.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “Children’s liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.”
    —Letty Cottin Pogrebin (b. 1939)

    “The remnant of Indians thereabout—all but exterminated in their recent and final war with regular white troops, a war waged by the Red Men for their native soil and natural rights—had been coerced into the occupancy of wilds not far beyond the Mississippi.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)