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> [My television teaches me that everything was wonderful in the Soviet Union. According to the programs I watch, the KGB and apparatchiks were angels, and the Stalin era was so festive that the heroes of the day must still be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-sorokin/my-television-teaches-me-that-everything-was-wonderful-in-the-soviet/)

[Vladimir Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-sorokin/)

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## More by Vladimir Sorokin

> [Orthodox churches, autocracy and national traditions are supposed to form a new national ideology in Russia. This would mean that Russia would be overtaken…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-sorokin/orthodox-churches-autocracy-and-national-traditions-are-supposed-to/)

[Vladimir Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-sorokin/)

> [In Russia one can be as pure as can be and still lose everything in a flash and end up in prison.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-sorokin/in-russia-one-can-be-as-pure-as-can-be-and-still-lose-everything-in-a/)

[Vladimir Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-sorokin/)

> [The worst thing that can happen to Russia is indifference in the West - that is, if it were interested in nothing but oil…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-sorokin/the-worst-thing-that-can-happen-to-russia-is-indifference-in-the-west/)

[Vladimir Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-sorokin/)

> [I'm not a prophet or a teacher, I just ask questions. I don't think a writer should be a teacher, but should know how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-sorokin/i-m-not-a-prophet-or-a-teacher-i-just-ask-questions-i-don-t-think-a/)

[Vladimir Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-sorokin/)

> [As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It was the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-sorokin/as-a-child-i-perceived-violence-as-a-sort-of-natural-law-in-the/)

[Vladimir Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-sorokin/)

> [I am always surprised when I watch the weather report on German television. First they show the map of Europe and then the camera…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-sorokin/i-am-always-surprised-when-i-watch-the-weather-report-on-german/)

[Vladimir Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-sorokin/)

> [I have Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to thank that a Russian writer can not only write anything he wants, but also publish it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-sorokin/i-have-mikhail-gorbachev-and-boris-yeltsin-to-thank-that-a-russian/)

[Vladimir Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-sorokin/)

> [In Russia there are special people who are permitted to do anything. They are the sacrificial priests of power. Anyone who is not a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-sorokin/in-russia-there-are-special-people-who-are-permitted-to-do-anything/)

[Vladimir Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-sorokin/)

> [In Russia no one is surprised when an official accepts a bribe while at the same time portraying the state as some sacred entity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-sorokin/in-russia-no-one-is-surprised-when-an-official-accepts-a-bribe-while/)

[Vladimir Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-sorokin/)

> [Putin likes to quote a sentence from Czar Alexander III, who said that Russian has only two allies - the army and the navy.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-sorokin/putin-likes-to-quote-a-sentence-from-czar-alexander-iii-who-said-that/)

[Vladimir Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-sorokin/)

> [The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-sorokin/the-khodorkovsky-case-is-typical-of-the-oprichnina-the-system-of/)

[Vladimir Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-sorokin/)

> [As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-sorokin/as-a-storyteller-i-was-influenced-by-the-moscow-underground-where-it/)

[Vladimir Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-sorokin/)

> [When I turn on the TV in Russia I see a general calmly claiming that our missiles are ahead of the latest American models…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-sorokin/when-i-turn-on-the-tv-in-russia-i-see-a-general-calmly-claiming-that/)

[Vladimir Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-sorokin/)

> [Everyone in Russia must awaken the citizen within himself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-sorokin/everyone-in-russia-must-awaken-the-citizen-within-himself/)

[Vladimir Sorokin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-sorokin/)

> [The citizen lives in each of us. In the days of Brezhnev, Andropov, Gorbachev and Yeltsin, I was constantly trying to suppress the responsible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-sorokin/the-citizen-lives-in-each-of-us-in-the-days-of-brezhnev-andropov/)

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