“We will do all we can to insure peace… but if war is imposed upon us we will be together shoulder to shoulder as in the last war to strive for the happiness of mankind.”

—  Georgy Zhukov

Quoted in "Odd World: A Photo-reporter's Story" - Page 299 - by John Phillips - 1959

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