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"[While giving guns to newly freed prisoners] C'mon! We're all going to die, die standing up!"
"[talks to the teenagers over their supplies] You think you're tough for eating beans every day? There's half a million scarecrows in Denver who'd give anything for one mouthful of what you got. They've been under siege for about three months. They live on rats and sawdust bread and sometimes... on each other. At night, the pyres for the dead light up the sky. It's medieval."
"[briefing Soviet Army officers and troops about the Wolverines; in Russian] What I despise most about warfare, is the hypocrisy it often breeds. I've heard euphemisms that we are 'containing the enemy', that our 'sector of pacification is growing'. These are the tactics of the lie. Lies have the stench of death and defeat. You can only win a war by exterminating the enemy! Do you know who we are fighting? [points to board] We are fighting Wolverines: small, ferocious animals. For them, you need a hunter. And you know, I am a hunter. From this moment on, there will be no further reprisals against civilians. This was stupid. Impotence. Comrades, if a fox stole your chickens, would you slaughter your pig because he saw the fox? No! You would hunt down the fox, find where it lives and destroy it! How do we do this? Become a fox."
"Patrick Swayze - Jed Eckert"
"C. Thomas Howell - Robert Morris"
"Lea Thompson - Erica Mason"
"Charlie Sheen - Matt Eckert"
"Darren Dalton - Daryl Bates"
"Jennifer Grey - Toni Mason"
"Brad Savage - Danny Bates"
"Doug Toby - Arturo "Aardvark" Mondragon"
"Powers Boothe - Lt. Col. Andrew "Andy" Tanner, USAF"
"Ben Johnson - Mr. Jack Mason"
"Harry Dean Stanton - Tom Eckert"
"Ron O'Neal - Colonel Ernesto Bella"
"William Smith - Colonel Strelnikov"
"Vladek Sheybal - General Bratchenko"
"Frank McRae - Mr. Teasdale"
"Roy Jenson - Mr. Samuel Morris"
"Pepe Serna - Mr. Mondragón"
"Lane Smith - Mayor Bates"
"Judd Omen - Nicaraguan Captain"
"Radames Pera - Sgt. Stepan Gorsky"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.