480 Quotes About Russia

Erano queste le nostre camere della morte. Ci mancava il gas per fare le camere a gas.

[С]вобода попервах здається хорошим обмінним товаром. Спершу її міняють на харчі, потім на те, щоб завжди було не гірше, ніж тепер (стабільність), потім на безпеку, і тільки потім-потім виявляється, що немає ні харчів, ні безпеки, ні стабільності, ні свободи [91].

If you knew when your last day of life was going to be, it was the best place to spend your last night on earth, because in Russia people party like tomorrow will never come.

People usually ask for sanctions against Saudi Arabia or Russia as long as the pump price for gasoline does not jump.

Two weeks later General Kaledin received a deputation from his troops. 'Will you,' the asked, 'promise to divide the estates of the Cossack landlords among the working Cossacks?''Only over my dead body,' responded Kaledin. A month later, seeing his army melt away before his eyes, Kaledin blew out his brains. And the Cossack movement was no more...

If the Russian people and the Russian elite remembered - viscerally, emotionally remembered - what Stalin did to the Chechens, they could not have invaded Chechnya in the 1990s, not once and not twice. To do so was the moral equivalent of postwar Germany invading western Poland. Very few Russians saw it that way - which is itself evidence of how little they know about their own history.

But the powerful and respected party right, particularly Stalin, went so far in the direction of moderation as to support a merger of Bolsheviks and Mensheviks - the proposal of Irakli Tsereteli, the outstanding Menshevik intellect and orator, recently returned from Siberian exile and now in charge of the Petrograd Soviet.

... to pour out one's heart and not drink vodka at the same time, well, that is inconceivable for a Russian soul...

I left the door open for Aliyev. I thought, he won't let Russia back in. Remember, Soviet Russia had crushed him and thrown him out.