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“My photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers... They say, 'We came to liberate you....' I say: 'Listen, I think it was quite different. I saw people being killed.' They say: 'No. We never... no shooting. No. No.' So I can show them my Prague 1968 photographs and say, 'Listen, these are my pictures. I was there.' And they have to believe me.”

People Thinking Believe I Can Different Sometimes Shows Saws Happened Photography Photographer Photograph Soldier Proof Russia Shooting Believe In Me Exes Prague

Author:Josef Koudelka

“But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.”

Believe Humans Facts Government Written Truth Is Essentials Russia Voting Criticize Believe In God Accents Commandments Thunder Human History Abolish

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.”

States Today Literature Differences United United States Criminals Russia Spy

Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt

“For 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War ended, we suddenly discovered that Russia was a poor Third World country. They had not been equipped to take over the world. In fact, they were just trying to improve a miserable standard of oppressive living, and couldn't. They had to spend too much on arms build-up. We didn't win the Cold War; we bankrupted the Russians. In effect, it was a big bank exhausting the reserves of a smaller one.”

“The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.”

Important Play Roles Influence Ambition South China Nuclear Russia Japan Korea North Korea Containing South Korea

Author:Zach Wamp

“We host some trips all over the world. We go to Alaska. We go to Mexico. We're going to Venezuela in December. We've been to Russia, all in conjunction with the radio show.”

World Shows Radio Russia Host Mexico December Alaska Venezuela Conjunctions

Author:Martin Milner

“In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.”

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Author:Pierre Laval

“Russia is like a dinosaur. A lot of time is needed for change to reach the tail from the head.”

Needed Russia Tails Dinosaurs

Author:Alexander Lebed

“My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.”

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Author:Arlen Specter

“The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.”

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Author:Anatoly Chubais

“We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.”

Self Matter Strong Interest Path Concern Russia Reform Very Strong Strain Self Interest Reformation Strong Self

Author:Warren Christopher

“Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.”

Should Happens Military Possibility Illusion Should Have Russia Superiority

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.”

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Author:Richard Lugar

“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.”

Action Interest Mystery Keys Russia Riddle Enigma Forecasts National Interests

Author:Winston Churchill

“Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country.”

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Author:Vladimir Zhirinovsky

“I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked myself what the world would be like if men lost the word 'I.'”

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Author:Ayn Rand

“We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme is the sanctity of human life - using the word 'sanctity' not in a mystical sense, but in the sense of 'supreme value.'”

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Book:We the Living

Source: We the Living

“Jameel McCline acts as if attacking Wladimir Klitschko is akin to attacking Russia during winter”

Ifs Winter Russia Attacking

Author:Larry Merchant

“Take a moment to imagine a world led by China or Russia. So we must lead.”

World Moments Imagine China Russia

Author:Paul Ryan

“Jane Kindred’s THE HOUSE OF ARKHANGEL'SK dazzles with its surreal blending of worlds. Lost angel Anazakia, last survivor of her murdered family, finds herself in the hands of demons with suspect motives, betrayed by her own kind, stranded in the world of Man—21st century St. Petersburg, Russia, to be exact. Weaving startling visuals with compelling characters, Kindred reveals parallels in the two worlds that are ‘neither haphazard chance nor calculated design.’ It’s a dizzying, vibrant read.”

“There was an intervention of the foreign states in the Russian Far East, Archangel of the West border of Russia. The foreign troops were participating in the attempts to stamp out the revolution. It's not just propaganda, because there are mounds of documents in the archives relating to these events and to the foreign espionage cases.”

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Author:Vladimir Semichastny

“Opposition can be useful. Every opposition movement is good and useful if it acts within the law... If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of the majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S. and that's the way it's done in Russia.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“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.”

Long Winning Tomorrow Program Russia Cups Figure Skating Bronze Good Long

Author:Alaine Chartrand

“But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.”

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Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.”

Turns Left Fate Russia Inevitable

Author:Mikhail Khodorkovsky

“I see little hope for a nation that values the health of its livestock more than that of its people....Farmers are not criticized for routinely giving their (live)stock nutritional supplements....superior to any sold for humans...Millions of families could plant home gardens if they truly wanted health. Refined food are practically unknown in Russia. The life expectancy of the 40-year-old American is near the lowest in the world.”

“I fully share the Congress's objective of promoting nonproliferation and combating Iran's efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and missile delivery systems. This issue remains at the top of the agenda with Russia as well as with other countries whose companies may be providing such assistance to Iran. In the case of Russian entities' cooperation with Iran, we have imposed penalties ten times in the past and stand ready to apply them again whenever necessary.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001

“There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe.”

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Author:Herman Gorter

“Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.”

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Author:Aslan Maskhadov

“My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.”

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Author:Arthur Rock

“I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where in Europe can you find old Hungary, old Russia, old France, old Italy? In Europe you're trying to copy America, you're almost American. But here you'll find Europeans who immigrated a hundred years ago - and we haven't spoiled them. Oh, Gio! You must see why I love New York. Because the whole world's in New York.”

“When I announced on my Facebook page that I'm coming to Israel, people started telling me that I shouldn't go there, but I figured that if I'm not going to come here, then I guess I can't go back to the United States anymore and I can never go to Russia again and I should probably never go back to Germany and I should probably never go back to France and I should probably never go back to England....All I see here is a really beautiful city.”

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Author:John Grant

“Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.”

Desire Imagination Russia

Author:Agnes Smedley

“In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.”

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Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski

“If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint, one big upside of wanton material acquisition has traditionally been the way it drives technological progress-which, after all, helps keep societies strong. In the nineteenth century, Russia ans Germany had little choice about modernizing; in those days stasis invited conquest. But if societies no longer face conquest, breakneck technological advance is an offer they can refuse, and frugality a luxury people can afford.”

Source: Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

“I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.”

Thinking America Russia Rotten Alliances

Author:Ezra Pound

“This document will play an important role in protecting the strategic interests of Russia and Uzbekistan and ensuring stability and security in the region, which some politicians call Russia's soft underbelly. It's not a secret that after the Soviet collapse and especially in recent years, Central Asia has become the focus of interest of major nations because of its geographic location and rich mineral resources.”

“To many Congressmen and Senators right now, there's a ceaseless antagonism toward Hollywood because politically, it is high-reward and low-risk. So when you can't do anything about poverty or the budget deficit, and you can't deal with Bosnia or the possibility of nuclear explosions in Russia, what do you do? You bash Hollywood and get on the front pages.”

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Author:Jack Valenti

“The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia.”

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Author:Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

“The most sheer fun I ever had in sports was playing volleyball, a game I commend highly. I understand that an effort is under way to establish a national league of professional volleyball teams, and if you have ever seen the great women's teams of Japan and Russia or the equally good men's teams of Cuba and East Germany, you know how exciting this playground game, which requires so little equipment, can be.”

“In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. And so for the last ten years, I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement.”

Source: It is what I think, 1947-1948

“The US wants to subdue Russia, to solve US problems at Russia's expense. No one in history ever managed to do this to Russia, and no one ever will.”

Want Problem Solve Russia Expenses

Author:Vladimir Putin

“This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise. If now there is not a communist government in Paris, this is only because Russia has no an army which can reach Paris in 1945.”

Ifs War Government Past Social Army Russia Paris Communist Territory Social Systems

Author:Joseph Stalin

“Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both. . . . Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire.”

Democracy Russia Cease Empires Ukraine

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“The recognition of Russia on November 16, 1933, started forces which were to have considerable influence in the attempt to collectivize the United States.”

States Force United United States Influence Russia Recognition November

Book:Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941

Source: Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941

“This decision was something I have thought about for a long time going back to the lockout and spending the year in Russia. Though I decided to return this past season, Lou was aware of my desire to go back home and have my family there with me. The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me.”

“I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the crowds back.”

Years Wells Two Remember Years Ago Sells Crowds Russia Bookstores Signing

Author:Robert Sheckley

“Through Russia, comes the hope of the world. Not in respect to what is sometimes termed Communism or Bolshevism - no! But freedom - freedom! That each man will live for his fellow man. The principle has been born there. It will take years for it to be crystallized; yet out of Russia comes again the hope of the world.”

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Author:Edgar Cayce

“Russia will become beacons of hope for the world.”

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Author:Edgar Cayce

“Byrnes... was concerned about Russia's postwar behavior. Russian troops had moved into Hungary and Rumania, and Byrnes thought it would be very difficult to persuade Russia to withdraw her troops from these countries, that Russia might be more manageable if impressed by American military might, and that a demonstration of the bomb might impress Russia.”

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Author:Leo Szilard

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