Soviet Red Army

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

““Is there life on Mars?” “No, not there either.””
—Russian saying popular in the Soviet period, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)

“He gets red roses in different places,
the head, that time he was as sleepy as a river,
the back, that time he was a broken scarecrow,
the arm like a diamond had bitten it,
the leg, twisted like a licorice stick....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

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