“We have orders to deploy. Pick up your rifles and get going!” – Russian Captain, Nicholas & Alexandra ... Movie Quotes Database

Russian Captain

[Another unnamed combat zone. Two ragged enlisted men have just killed a rabbit for their meal and are skinning it and cooking it over a fire; their only source of food as they are not regularly fed. A Russian captain orders them to stop what they are doing and get themselves in gear]

"We have orders to deploy. Pick up your rifles and get going!"

Russian Private

"Bug off! We're eating!"

Russian Captain

"I said move! NOW!"
[One of the enlisted men picks up his rifle, loads it and without the faintest fear of a court-martial, aims it at the superior officer and opens fire. This scene is indicative of the rampant mutiny and lack of discipline in the Russian military during World War One]

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