Sholokhov on Red Army.....

. . . While no war in world history has been as bloody and destructive as the war of 1941–1945, no army in the world has ever scored such brilliant victories as our own Red Army, nor appeared before the amazed eyes of mankind bathed in such a radiance of glory, might and greatness.

When our armies had taken Eidtkunen in Eastern Prussia, an inscription in Russian was made on the wall of the railway station building next to the German words: “741.7 kilometres to Berlin”. One of our soldiers had written in a bold scrawl: “We”ll get there anyway.” And signed it: Chernousov.

Do not these simple words written by a Russian soldier ring with truly magnificent confidence? And these Russian soldiers did get to Berlin, and what is more they buried forever under
the ruins of Hitler’s metropolis his mad dreams of world domination.

Centuries will pass, but mankind will always gratefully remember our heroic Red Army. . . .

Mikhail Sholokhov