"The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements... all this had a very bad effect on morale. Many longed to get across the Volga, to escape the hell of Stalingrad."

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Source : "Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army". Book by Catherine Merridale, p. 174, 2007.

Vasily Chuikov

#Reinforcement Quotes #Retreat Quotes #Receiving Quotes

“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”
“Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.”
“The key to freedom is accepting my own autonomy as an individual, and respecting the autonomy of other individuals, with all of what that means - whatever that means.”
“All things pass...Perhaps the passage of time is a kind of healing, or a kind of salvation granted equally to all people.”
“The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.”
“I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though a few of the verses that I've written, yes, I think they are truly poems.”
“So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that.”

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