Maj. Semyon Kulin Quotes in The Iron Curtain (1948)

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.

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!

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.

Maj. Semyon Kulin: I've got blood on both hands, and I sleep with dead faces on my eyeballs.

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?

Maj. Semyon Kulin: An efficient firing squad will solve all my problems. Takes too long to drink oneself to death.

Maj. Semyon Kulin: Truth? What's that? I used to know when I was a very little boy.