Soviet Red Army

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

    “So they lived. They didn’t sleep together, but they had children.”
    —Russian saying popular in the Soviet period, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)

    “Only, here and there, an old sailor,
    Drunk and asleep in his boots,
    Catches tigers
    In red weather.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The army is the true nobility of our country.”
    —Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)