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"German Kolushkin as Lt. Pavel Telenkov"
"Yuriy Dubrovin as private Gromykhalo"
"Oleg Borisov as Sgt. Mikhail Domeshek"
"Boris Arakelov as 2nd Lt. Cheginichka"
"Boris Sichkin as Sr. Lt. Selivanov"
"Boris Tabarovsky as Lt. Bezzubtsev"
"Pyotr Gorin as Cpt. Sergachyov"
"Fyodor Odinokov as Gefreiter Osip Byankin"
"One of us was killed too when we were surrounded. By a bag of pea puree. They dropped it from a plane... to the spot! At war as at war."
"Valentin Zubkov as Col. Basov"
"Mikhail Kononov as 2nd Lt. Alexander Alexandrovich Maleshkin"
"Mikhail Gluzsky as Col. Dey"
"Victor Pavlov as Starshina Grigory Shcherbak"
"How many songs were composed during this war..."
"Pyotr Lyubeshkin as Timofei Vasilievich Ovsyannikov"
"Valentin Grudinin as chief of Air Army intelligence department"
"Yuri Sarantsev as Air Division commander"
"Alexandr Milutin as fighter pilot"
"Gregory Hlady as fighter pilot of 1st squadron"
"Aleksei Smirnov as Makarych, Maestro's technician"
"Vano Yantbelidze as Vano, fighter pilot"
"Vladimir Volkov as political officer"
"Vladimir Talashko as Sergey Skvortzov, fighter pilot, Maestro's wingman and best friend"
"Alim Fedorinsky as Alyabyev, fighter pilot"
"Aleksandr Nemchenko as Ivan Fedorovich, fighter pilot"
"Vilori Pashchenko as Vorobyev, fighter pilot"
"Sergei Ivanov as «Grasshopper» Aleksandrov, fighter pilot"
"Dmitri Mirgorodskiy as infantry captain"
"At those moment my enchanted mate turns throttle up and rushed off to a date."
"Rustam Sagdullayev as «Romeo» Sagdullayev, fighter pilot"
"Let's live!"
"The soldier's commandment says: keep away from big bosses, but closer to the kitchen."
"Have a walk, Vasya!"
"Yevgeniya Simonova as Masha, female bomber navigator"
"(returns to base with a captured Messerschmitt instead of the Yak) Makarych! Take the vehicle! See, changed without looking! You can hold on to the tail, the dragon doesn't bite anymore."
"(returns to base with a horse instead of a plane) Makarych! Take the vehicle! See, changed without looking! Sorry, they didn't have a tank."
"You’re not obliged to be a pilot, we'll teach you to fly anyway... but you do have to be a musician!"
"Olga Mateshko as Zoya, female bomber pilot"
"We've no harp, so take a tambourine!"
"War is transient, but music is eternal."
"Love... Seryoga and I walked from Brest to Stalingrad with love. And then from Stalingrad to here, to the Dnieper, with love. I will be able to fly this route in a hundred years without a map. Because there are graves of the guys from Singing squadron everywhere."
"(reads Romeo's report) "I want to get married, request permission." Well, it's good idea. The point is, it's just in time."
"People, humanity must someday understand that hatred destroys. Only love creates."
"By the way, where is my 100 grams for my victory? Calm down, I don't use to drink. But it's a matter of principle!"
"Romeo of Tashkent became so sad, when Juliet flew away with her biplane."
"Sergey Podgorny as Victor «Darkie» Shchedronov, fighter pilot"
"Chatterboxes... They're used to saying: "The German is a coward, the German is afraid of a head-on attack, he'll definitely turn away!" But mine didn't turn away. So much so that... my wings flew off: one to the left, other to the right. I came to on the ground... the "Yak" was burning out, and there is ... the cherry tree in blossom in front of my eyes."
"Guys, let's live! (last words in his life)"
"Viktor Miroshnichenko as Ivan "Pop" Ermakov, the fighter regiment commander"
"(Aleksandrov crashed the plane on his first training flight) Well. Remove him from flying. Don't give him 100 grams. Appoint him as the airfield duty officer... for all eternity! Grass-hop-per!!!"
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.