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• I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.

  Mark Twain

  Europe, Turkeys, Wish

  Mark Twain (1869). “The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress”, p.443

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• In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no questions were asked.:; In the eighteenth century it had been quite normal and safe to travel in a country with which your own country was at war.

  George Orwell

  Country, War, America

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact... If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful.

  Enoch Powell

  Years, Challenges, World

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• As we know, the goal of every struggle is victory. But if the proletariat is to achieve victory, all the workers, irrespective of nationality, must be united. Clearly, the demolition of national barriers and close unity between the Russian, Georgian, Armenian, Polish, Jewish and other proletarians is a necessary condition for the victory of the proletariat of all Russia.

  Joseph Stalin

  Struggle, Goal, Unity

  "J. V. Stalin Works" Volume 1, by Joseph Stalin, Foreign Languages Publishing House, (pp. 279-94), 1954.

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• Just make it (his obituary): born in Russia, first lesson at 3, debut at 7, debut in America in 1917.

  Jascha Heifetz

  America, Lessons, Firsts

  Chicago Sun-Times, December 13, 1987.

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• Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights.

  Garry Kasparov

  Jobs, Fighting, Rights

  "How Life Imitates Chess". Book by Garry Kasparov, 2007.

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• Native annalists may look sadly back from the future on that period when we had the atomic bomb and the Russians didn't. Or when the Russians had aquired (through connivance and treachery of Westerns with warped minds) the atomic bomb - and yet still didn't have any stockpile of the weapons. That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.

  Curtis LeMay

  Mind, Eras, Looks

  "Mission With LeMay: My Story" by Curtis E. LeMay, MacKinlay Kantor, (p. 560-561), 1965.

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• Russia has lost an empire but not yet found a role. Russia has to decide what it wants to be. And as we know in Britain, that takes some time. It is quite tough to lose an empire and Russia lost its empire very rapidly and very admirably, that is to say peacefully, it didn't fight.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Fighting, Roles, Want

  "Interview: British Historian Timothy Garton Ash On Europe's Future". Interview with Rikard Jozwiak, www.rferl.org. March 16, 2013.

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• Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States.

  Frank Chodorov

  United States, Defeat, Socialism

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• I went around to the little schoolhouses, talking like a professor, explaining our platform. We were lucky if the collection gave us enough for gas to get to the next place. We encouraged questions, and people asked us if it was true we were going to take their farms, like the Soviets in Russia, and did we believe in God.

  Tommy Douglas

  Believe, Talking, People

  "Tommy Douglas". Book by Doris French Shackleton, 1983.

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• I think the US and Russia are mirroring each other and they have this love/hate relationship since the Cold War. You feel it when you go to Russia; they admire and hate the US at the same time, and here also there's this mistrust and it's always going to be there.

  Sophie Barthes

  Hate, War, Thinking

  "Oscar-nominated Actor Paul Giamatti and Director Sophie Barthes Try Saving Our Cold Souls". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2009.

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• The most obvious risk was that the Russian speaking population was threatened and that the threats were absolutely specific and tangible. This is what made Crimean residents, the people who live there, think about their future and ask Russia for help. This is what guided our decision.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, People, Decision

  Vladimir Putin during a Question-and-Answer Session, www.washingtonpost.com. April 17, 2014.

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• Russia had to take the necessary measures in order to prevent the situation in Crimea unfolding the way it is now unfolding in southeastern Ukraine. We didn't want any tanks, any nationalist combat units or people with extreme views armed with automatic weapons.

  Vladimir Putin

  Ukraine, Views, Order

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If NATO troops walk in Crimea, they will immediately deploy their forces there. Such a move would be geopolitically sensitive for us because, in this case, Russia would be practically ousted from the Black Sea area. We'd be left with just a small coastline of 450 or 600km, and that's it!

  Vladimir Putin

  Moving, Sea, Black

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Russia demanded Armenian territories, very cleverly using long-standing, bitter fights between Armenians and Turks.

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner

  Fighting, Long, Territory

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, June 06, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• Russia must realise its full potential in high-tech sectors such as modern energy technology, transport and communications, space and aircraft building.

  Vladimir Putin

  Communication, Technology, Space

  Annual Address to the Federal Assembly, en.kremlin.ru. May 10, 2006.

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• Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Forgiving, Germany, France

  Washington Post, April 13, 2003.

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• In Soviet-Russia the Jew is forging the tool with which he wants to enslave Europe.

  Julius Streicher

  Europe, Tools, Want

  Speech in the Bavarian regional parliament on April 25, 1928. "Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938.

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• Russia's only real geostrategic option - the option that would give Russia a realistic international role and also maximize the opportunity of transforming and socially modernizing itself - is Europe.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Real, Opportunity, Europe

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2016). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.118, Basic Books

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• The key point to bear in mind is that Russia cannot be in Europe without Ukraine also being in Europe, whereas Ukraine can be in Europe without Russia being in Europe.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Keys, Ukraine, Europe

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2016). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.122, Basic Books

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• By an incredible coincidence, Gamow and Edward Condon, who had discovered simultaneously and independently the explanation of radioactivity (one in Russia, the other in this country), came to spend the the last ten years of their lives within a hundred yards of each other in Boulder.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Country, Years, Lasts

  "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 267), 1991.

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• The Russian proposal is ambiguous. If they want to propose enrichment (only) in Russia we have said it is not acceptable. But if it is a complementary or parallel plan, we will study that.

  Hamid-Reza Assefi

  Want, Study, Proposal

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• Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Song, Children, Insomnia

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1993). “A stranger to heaven and earth: poems of Anna Akhmatova”, Shambhala Pubns

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• The stars of death stood over us. And Russia, guiltless, beloved, writhed under the crunch of bloodstained boots, under the wheels of Black Marias.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Stars, Black, Boots

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Duce told me that he foresaw the possibility of a conflict between Germany and Russia. He said that we could not stay out of this because it involved the struggle against communism. It was, therefore, necessary to make arrangements for the bringing together between Ljubljana and Zagreb of a motorized division, of an armored division, and of the grenadier division.

  Ugo Cavallero

  Struggle, Together, Germany

  "Diplomacy of Aggression" by Leonid Nikolaevich Kutakov (p. 110), 1970.

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