World War III (1982)

William Traylor: Maj. Nicolai Saamaretz

Quotes 

• Col. Alexander Vorashin : I would like to think there is still some meaning to all this.

  Maj. Nicolai Saamaretz : A soldier doesn't ask for meaning, Comrade. He asks for information and further instructions. That is what we will get.

• Maj. Nicolai Saamaretz : [Outside an oil pumping station in Alaska]  Do you think it will be worth it for them to die for a piece of machinery?

  Col. Alexander Vorashin : Ideology, Major. That's your subject, isn't it? They will fight for the ideal of that place and all the ideas connected with it.

  Maj. Nicolai Saamaretz : And where do people get those ideas? From men like me.

  Col. Alexander Vorashin : In Stalingrad my father fought for a steel plant that looked like a pile of rubble. It wasn't the steel plant, it was what it represented to the Russian people.

  [Looks towards the pumping station] 

  Col. Alexander Vorashin : Well, then that's their Stalingrad.