Quotes About Russia

They would take advantage of an uprising to seize the reins themselves; they would turn upon their allies as they had done with Kerensky in Russia.

Old Russia had had virtually no middle class, and the governing class had been paralyzed by defeat in war. But other countries had a large middle class, self-conscious and powerful, and when you tried to jam through your proletarian revolution, what you got was Mussolini or Hitler!

During the thousand years of her history Russia had seen many great things. During the Soviet period the country had seen global military victories, vast construction sites, whole new cities, dams across the Dnieper and the Volga, canals joining different seas. The country had seen mighty tractors and skyscrapers...There was only one thing Russia had not seen during this thousand years: freedom.

The country had seen mighty tractors and skyscrapers...There was only one thing Russia had not seen during this thousand years: freedom.

Había pensado alguna vez Lenin mientras hacía la Revolución que no sólo Rusia no iba a seguir los pasos de la Europa socialista sino que además la esclavitud rusa escondida en ella iba a traspassar las fronteras y a convertirse en la antorcha que iluminara las nuevas vías de la humanidad?

Para ello [Lenin] lo sacrificó todo; para alcanzar el poder inmoló, mató lo más sagrado que Rusia poseía: la libertad. Pero ¿qué experiencia podía tener la libertad, una criatura de sólo ocho meses, nacida en un país de esclavitud milenaria?

MOSCOW RUSSIA

outcome of the present struggle between Russia and Japan, its significance lies in the fact that a nation of the East, equipped with Western weapons and girding itself with Western energy of will, is deliberately measuring strength against one of

If I was a woman in Russia I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly.

You may have the worst timing since Napoleon decided the dead of winter was the right moment to invade Russia.

We are all dead. All equal. Broken and aimless and believing we are alive. This is Russia and it is 1952. What else would you call hell?

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Mas quem recolheu mais votos foi Estaline. Estaline, está a entender? Foi aí que eu compreendi que a Rússia nunca se tornaria um país como os outros. Não que houvesse alguma verdadeira dúvida.

Le pouvoir est comme le soleil et la mort, il ne peut se regarder en face. Surtout en Russie.

Entre vós, o dinheiro é essencial, é a base de tudo. Aqui, garanto-lhe, não é assim. Na Rússia só conta o privilégio, a proximidade do poder. Tudo o resto é acessório. Era assim no tempo do czar, e durante os anos comunistas ainda mais. O sistema soviético baseava-se no estatuto

I have found that the average Russian holds the United States and the American people in very high regard. Many Russians also remain deeply religious people—communism never managed to purge their faith.

Alexei and Anastasia are barely alive. The others are dead

Russia's just trying to solve her own problems, Mr. Dunross, one of them's the U.S. containment policy. They just want to be left alone and not surrounded by highly emotional Americans with their overfed hands on nuclear triggers.

The Japanese campaign involves therefore two great uncertainties; first, whether Russia will come in though we think that will be all right; and second, when and how S-1 will resolve itself.

While the specifics of Russia's interference in the 2016 American election remain unclear, no one doubts that Moscow has built a robust technological arsenal for waging cyberattacks.

It is unclear how much money Trump has, but it is not enough to matter in Russia. If he keeps up his pose as the tough billionaire, he will be flattered by the Russian media, scorned by those who matter in Russia, and then easily crushed by men far richer and smarter than he.

Before I was elected to represent southwestern Texas in the U.S. Congress, I spent almost a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA. I served in places where Russia has geopolitical interests, and learned that Russia has one simple goal: to erode trust in democratic institutions.

I went to Vassar College for undergraduate and studied literature and queer theory, and all of the above. And then I took a Fulbright scholarship in Russia.

In 2008, when Russia attacked Georgia, Western countries took it as an isolated incident, but probably this was the start of the push against our underlying international security architecture. And this push then started a landslide which in 2014 resulted in Crimean occupation.