Wednesday, December 30, 2015

толковый Черчилль

"If they [the Russians] ... take Berlin, will not their impression that they have been the overwhelming contributor to our common victory be unduly imprinted in their minds, and may this not lead them into a mood which will raise grave and formidable difficulties in the future? I therefore consider that from a political standpoint we should march as far east into Germany as possible, and that should Berlin be in our grasp we should certainly take it." - Churchill as quoted in In a Cold Crater

ну прямо как в воду смотрел old fart

опечатка там на стр 11, а то и хуже: prescriptions вместо proscriptions

...poet Gottfried Benn, calling the city "a Mongolian border town provisionally still called Berlin."

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