The Beast of War Quotes

Daskal: I read your dossier, Mr. Intellectual. What would you say your record says about you?
Koverchenko: That I think for myself.
Daskal: You think for yourself. When I was eight years old, defending Stalingrad, I didn't *think for myself*. When the Motherland asked for our lives, we GAVE. My father didn't think of himself, he GAVE. My mother didn't think of herself, she GAVE. My brother didn't think of himself, he GAVE! My comrades tied a rope around my waist and lowered me on top of Nazi tanks. I'd stuff Molotovs under turret and cannon, and they pulled me up again. Eight years old! They called me Tank Boy. I took a lot of Nazi tanks. A lot. And over the years I've learned to smell a traitor.

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Koverchenko: [to Daskal] Sorry, sir. Not much of a war. No Stalingrad. How is it that we're the Nazis this time? How is it? I tried to be a good soldier. But you can't be a good soldier in a rotten war, sir. Now I want you to live to see them win. Go. [shouts]
Koverchenko: I said go!

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Koverchenko: You're a good soldier Anton. You can be counted on when they ask you to shoot your mother.

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Maj. Mark Baird: Can't you find us some warehouse to keep him in temporarily?

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Taj: I will not fight alongside scavengers who pick gold from the teeth of dead Russians!

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[Golikov and Kaminski are walking back to the tank carrying fuel cans from the helicopter as Daskal watches them from behind the tank's machine gun]
Golikov: What are we doing? Why don't we make a run for it?
Kaminski: Are you crazy? He'd shoot us right out of the sky!

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