“There was no ground for us beyond [the] Volga.”

— Vasily Zaytsev

Quoted in "Notes of a Sniper: For us There is no Land Beyond the Volga" - Zaytsev,Vasily - Vladivostok:Moscow/2826 Press Inc.

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