- Corporal: Here you don't smile! If someone can afford to smile in his civilian life, he must remember that here it is not allowed to neigh like a horse!
- Rahikainen: [Hietanen has been promoted to petty officer] Well, Hietanen. Have you managed to get some pussy when you've been on vacation. Women, they like officers. I'm sure that they wet their paint right away, when they saw your stripes.
- Hietanen: You can never be silent of that one God damn thing that is allways on your mind. You're such a strange fellow, Rahikainen. If we survive alive from this war I will take you to our neighbourhood where you can act our bull.
- Viirilä: I was in jail last night. My old man was drunk when he came back from the Winter War. On the following day he went to work having a terrible hangover. I was drunk too when I came here. And I'm also having a hangover now that I'm about to start the warfare.
- Vuorela: I need new boots.
- Mäkilä: I'm in a hurry. I ain't got any time to give you any boots!
- Hietanen: Give Vuorela new boots right away! That's captain's order!
- Mäkilä: Captain is giving orders like we'd be in America where they have equipments and supplies more than they need! You are allways asking captain to give you what you are begging for!
- Hietanen: Bloody hell! I never start to wonder how someone can love rags an cloths so much like you. Some boys love pretty girls. That is something that I understand. But rags and cloths! That so hard to swallow!
- Rahikainen: [kicking the helmet of a dead Russian soldier] Hello there! Tell me if it's cold in the Russian hell!
- Lammio: [soldiers are whining about the food] If you don't like the food, you don't have to eat it. That is no compulsion.
- Sihvonen: [Soldiers are passing Tyynelä's body that is laying on the ground] Where was he hit?
- Salo: In the cheek. The bullet came out of the neck.
- Rahikainen: That was the end of Tyynelä's war.
- Vera: [the Finns have just invated Petrozavodsk] Why did you came? Why didn't you let us live in peace?
- Executed Soldier: [to the lieutenant] Give me a cigarrette, you fucking dog!
- [lieutenant gives him a cigarrette]
- Executed Soldier: All right, do what you you have to do, you fucking butchers! I'm getting cold!
- Lieutenant, Leader of the Execution Group: Scarves!
- Executed Soldier: I won't die with a rag on my eyes!