Soviet Red Army

Famous quotes containing the words soviet, red and/or army:

    The tremendous outflow of intellectuals that formed such a prominent part of the general exodus from Soviet Russia in the first years of the Bolshevist Revolution seems today like the wanderings of some mythical tribe whose bird-signs and moon-signs I now retrieve from the desert dust.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    I am so tired of being a bachelor
    I could give all my heart to that Red Moll
    That had but the one eye.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    An army is maintained for a thousand days all to be used on one morning.
    Chinese proverb.