Book: The second world war. Page 2

Russian army drove the German invaders from their country. Everything that Hitler so quickly won the Russian for three years before that, they were lost when the huge losses in men and equipment. The Crimea was cleared. Was reached the Polish border.

Stalin had every reason to be in a good mood as things had gone well. Scale the struggle waged by the Russians, much higher than the operation, of whom I still talked. Undoubtedly, it formed the basis that allowed British and American armies to get closer to the culmination point of the war.

Backup plans in all phases of military planning and so if the top is not made the relevant amendments, it would be impossible to take another step. Each and each stage requires a reserve in time, and the sum of these reserves is usually nullifies the whole plan.

We will never get to the poles said they were satisfied. Nothing would satisfy the poles.

Germany must be crushed at any cost so that she could not reunite.

The best friendship is that which begins with misunderstandings.

In wartime truth is so precious that she should always protect a squad of lies.

Stalin is charming, when he wants it.

Roosevelt said that reform in India should begin from the bottom, and Stalin said that reform from the bottom means a revolution.

Total war draws into its sphere not only the military forces, using the word "military" in its broadest possible sense. Almost every important military problem is associated with the political, economic, industrial, and domestic issues.

Eden said, as Marshall well knows that the Prime Minister as he seeks to strike Hitler. Stalin fully agreed with this, but, laughing, said that I have a tendency to choose the easy way for themselves and provide hard work to the Russians.

Over the past two years we hear many different conversations about the opening of the so-called second front in Northern France against Germany. It is quite natural that the Russians, who bear the brunt of the struggle against the German armies in their front, continually require this. Personally, I always think about not only second, but third on the front. I have always believed that Western democracies have, like a boxer fight with both hands, not one.

The policy of collectivization was a terrible struggle. It lasted four years, but in order to get rid of periodic famines, Russia was absolutely necessary to plow the land with tractors. We need to mechanize our agriculture. When we gave tractors to the peasants, they fell into disrepair a few months. Only collective farms with workshops could handle tractors.

All of Europe is full of Slavs and Communists. All the defeated countries would become Bolshevik and Slav, if Germany would be defeated.