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Winning depended to a large extent on the determination of the troops and the officers. The certainty that we were going to win kept up everyone's spirits, from privates to generals.
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Quoted in "Memoirs" - Page 167 - by Andre? Andreevich Gromyko, Harold Shukman - 1990

 

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