"Everything will be all right. I know this room. Soldiers used to be quartered here. Now it's our turn."

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Said to his wife in the Presidential Palace, shortly before his assassination, as quoted in Rodric Braithwaite (2010) Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89, page 67.