Quotes About Russian

But there was also a car—for the GDR an expensive car, a Russian Lada—that

Why did people need a permit to ride a bike?' I ask. 'Because they could bring messages! Pass on news!' Koch cries. 'There was no other transport. People on bikes could evade checkpoints, they could have secret meetings.' Clearly the atmosphere of paranoid control had set in early under the Russians.

All his family were miners: during the war even his grandmother had worked down the shafts, losing the fingers of her left hand under the wheels of a runaway trolley-car. Though he had gone into a white-collar union job after college, he still thought of himself as a miner, a shakhtyor – in Russian the word still has a faint heroic ring – too. But beyond that Alexey wasn't too sure what he

Here begins Ukraine's great debate – still raw, still undecided: are Ukrainians Central Europeans, like the Poles, or a species of Russian? Poles used to call western Ukraine 'Eastern Little Poland'; the Russian name for Ukraine was 'Little Russia'.

Like every Russian city, Chelyabinsk has an impressive monument to those who died during World War II.

Irina harbors a resentment, almost an outright hatred of the West. She is a proud Russian

The Orthodox Church has been central to Russian identity and empire since 988,

He has trumpeted Russian moral superiority over Western individualism, degradation, and duplicity

what she calls "Russian fatalism": "It comes from our history, from hundreds of years

Il me désire tellement que je m'agenouille et je le fais jouir avec la bouche, longuement. Il se tait, puis murmure seulement mon prénom avec son accent russe, comme une litanie. Mon dos contre le mur, le noir (il ne veut pas de lumière), la communion.

Incomprehensible messaging is a very important part of Russian propaganda.

We have been protecting the lives of the Russian peacekeepers who had been attacked by their Georgian comrades, because there was a joint peacekeeping force.

She's like snow in Russian, said Anna. Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow had a scent it would smell like that [the rose]....

I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.

Russian citizens being attacked is an attack against the Russian Federation.

People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.

Mom developed an interest in 'heritage-language education after noticing an increasing number of students in her UCLA classes whose parents were Russian.

We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.

I respond well to terribly beautiful, terribly brilliant Russian women.

Harris himself was not the villain of Dresden. The decision to mount the raids, and those on Berlin, Leipzig and Chemnitz, was taken by the combined US, Russian and British Chiefs of Staff, fully supported by Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill. It was Harris's duty to execute their orders. Nor was Harris the architect of area bombing, a policy already in place when, in 1942, he became C-in-C of Bomber Command.

Forging a visa is terroristcell kind of crazy. Or Russian-printed-bills kind of savvy.

I'm remembering there's a word in Russian, izgoy, that describes someone with a flaw that makes that person singularly unfit to perform his or her professional role. A blocked writer, I lascivious priest, a drunken chauffeur. As a screwed-up therapist,someone like me should not be working at all. Not yet. It is far too soon. And you can tell that. Bethany, with her Competence Scale, already has. But here I am. An izgoy.

Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft.