Quotes and Sayings About Russia
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He considered the Rvolution a victroy for the Jews, which opinion, he said, prevailed on the East Side where rejoicing knew no bounds. We felt, added Mr. Cahan, that this is a great triumph for the Jews' cause. The anti-Jewish element in Russia has always been identified with the anti-revolutionary party. Jews having always sat high in the Councils of the revolutionists, all of our race became inseparably linked with the opponents of the government in the official mind.
-- Abraham Cahan -
I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.
-- Adolf Galland -
Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.
-- Adolf Galland -
The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might, and the Republic is in danger. Yes - danger from within and without. We need law and order! Without it our nation cannot survive.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
-- Agnes Smedley -
Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
-- Agnes Smedley -
After Russia (winning bronze at Rostelecom Cup), I'm one of the top Canadian ladies. Tomorrow, I just have to do a good long program.
-- Alaine Chartrand -
Metaphysics of Evolution: What is Matter & Life? 'Recent discoveries from Russia confirm that DNA / Genes are resonant structures which are subtly interconnected to their environment. i.e. Genetic material can be manipulated by waves with certain resonant frequencies.'
-- Alan Haselhurst -
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In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin!
-- Alan ParsonsSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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We welcome, we welcome this good cooperation between Russia and NATO.
-- Aleksander Kwasniewski -
Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO.
-- Aleksander Kwasniewski -
You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
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A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
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Russia is like a dinosaur. A lot of time is needed for change to reach the tail from the head.
-- Alexander Lebed -
You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.
-- Alexander Lebed -
I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.
-- Alexander Lebedev -
Everybody is jumping up and down back in Russia. Probably lots of vodka, too.
-- Alexander Ovechkin -
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I consider him [i.e Stalin] one of the greatest persons in the history of mankind. In the history of Russia he was, in my opinion, even greater than Lenin. Until Stalin's death I was anti-Stalinist, but I always regarded him as a brilliant personality.
-- Alexander Zinoviev -
The worker-mother must learn not to differentiate between yours and mine; she must remember that there are only our children, the children of Russia’s communist workers.
-- Alexandra Kollontai -
We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.
-- Alexei Navalny -
Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging - not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That's something new for Russia.
-- Alexei Navalny -
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Everyone needs to understand that my work addresses existing problems, and one of the crucial problems in Russia today is corruption.
-- Alexei Navalny -
I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people. So I don't want to hear those who say we're appealing to the authorities. Who's the power here?
-- Alexei Navalny -
When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.
-- Alexei Navalny -
It was always a challenge for me to prove that a Russian financial investor can be as successful in the West as back at home in Russia.
-- Alisher Usmanov -
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The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind of capitalism, but to a pure capitalist revoÂlution. It runs in parallel with world-wide capitalist domination which, by successive steps, eliminates old feudal and Asiatic forms in various zones. While the historical situation in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries caused the capitalist revolution to take liberal forms, in the twentieth century it must have totalitarian and bureaucratic ones.
-- Amadeo Bordiga -
Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way.
-- Anatoly Chubais