Joseph Stalin Quotes on War
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If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and aeroplanes.
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If the opposition disarms, all is well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
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History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been.
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Ours is a just cause; victory will be ours!
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This leads to the conclusion, it is time to finish retreating. Not one step back! Such should now be our main slogan. ... Henceforth the solid law of discipline for each commander, Red Army soldier, and commissar should be the requirement - not a single step back without order from higher command.
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This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise. If now there is no a communist government in Paris, cause of this is Russia has no an army which can reach to Paris in 1945.
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In the Soviet Army, it takes more courage to retreat than advance.