Now the opportunity to destroy the USSR has arrived.

 

Now the opportunity to destroy the USSR has arrived.
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Quoted in "The greatest battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow" - Page 215 - by Andrew Nagorski - 2007

 

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