The Iron Curtain (1948)
Eduard Franz: Maj. Semyon Kulin
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Quotes
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Igor Gouzenko : I've got some news for you.
Maj. Semyon Kulin : News, news, news. The world of full of news these days.
Igor Gouzenko : Oh, this is something I...
Maj. Semyon Kulin : Don't get excited about it. That's very important. And don't get believe everything you hear.
Igor Gouzenko : This just came from Moscow.
Maj. Semyon Kulin : Ah, then you must believe it, every word of it.
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Igor Gouzenko : Listen, Comrade Major. Our wives are arriving, day after tomorrow.
Maj. Semyon Kulin : Oh, no! What time?
Igor Gouzenko : Eleven thirty.
Maj. Semyon Kulin : If we're lucky, the train will be late, very late.
Igor Gouzenko : Comrade Major, my wife will be on that train.
Maj. Semyon Kulin : Your wife was never a captain in the Red Army!
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Col. Aleksandr Trigorin : That fantastic mushroom over Hiroshima. I saw the newsreel pictures. I can't get them out of my head.
Maj. Semyon Kulin : A beautiful, poisonous mushroom.
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Maj. Semyon Kulin : I've got blood on both hands, and I sleep with dead faces on my eyeballs.
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Maj. Semyon Kulin : As a man, I'm called a sadist, but what of governments that pile dead upon dead and justify murder as a means to an end?
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Maj. Semyon Kulin : An efficient firing squad will solve all my problems. Takes too long to drink oneself to death.
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Maj. Semyon Kulin : Truth? What's that? I used to know when I was a very little boy.