Vladimir Yakunin quotes

The Soviet Union attempted to export communism to the entire world. We know what came of that. Now the West is trying to export democracy, including to regions where there is no traditional foundation for it. That cannot end well.
-- Vladimir Yakunin

#Trying #Democracy #Unions

You can throw a bucket of cold water on Russians, and we can take it. But one shouldn't humiliate us!
-- Vladimir Yakunin

#Water #Buckets #Cold

A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.
-- Vladimir Yakunin

#War #Russia #Cost

In the minds of many Western politicians, military interventions and air strikes appear to have become legitimate policy tools since the NATO attacks on Yugoslavia during the 1990s. That's how they intend to bring everyone into line who don't share the Western view of democratization of society and the liberalization of the economy. But there is no future for that kind of globalization.
-- Vladimir Yakunin

#Military #Air #Views

What right does the West have to constantly criticize Russia? There are a few things about the West that I don't like either. But I am not constantly pointing my finger and criticizing things that are a country's internal affairs.
-- Vladimir Yakunin

#Country #Russia #Doe

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

The triangle pointing downward is a female symbol corresponding to the yoni and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the lingam ... When the two triangles are interlaced, it represents the union of the active and passive forces in nature; it represents the male and female elements.

I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed.

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

Im a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.