The Best Bratchenko Quotes

General: [in Russian; subtitled] 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.

General: 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 the fox, find where it lives and destroy it! And how do we do this? Become a fox.

General: [in Russian; subtitled] Do you know who we are fighting? We are fighting "Wolverines," small ferocious animals. For them you need a hunter, and you know, I am a hunter.

General: [in Russian; subtitled] What is a "Wolverine"?
Colonel: [in Russian] A small animal, like a badger, but terribly ferocious. It is also the name of the local sports collective.
General: [in Russian] They're beasts, Ernesto. You must kill every one of them eventually. It's the same as Afghanistan. They'll never stop.

Colonel: [in the now-occupied Calumet, Colorado]
[in Russian; subtitled]
Colonel: Look, I was always on the side of the insurgents. I have no experience in these matters, but it would seem necessary to win the support of the people. As our opponents used to say in Vietnam: "Win their hearts and minds."
General: [in Russian] And they lost, Ernesto... Morale is crucial right now. Keep the men in the secured areas. You'll see how they forget about these "Wolverines."
Colonel: [Toni blows up a nearby "Soviet-American Friendship Center."]
[in Russian]
Colonel: You were saying, Comrade?
General: [in Russian] Oh, shut up!