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)

“Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”
—Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 1:18.

“Like an army defeated
The snow hath retreated,”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)