Arms Quote by Boris Yeltsin

The Russians are a very sentimental people.

— Mike Jackson

“Never since the days of the Spartan Helots has history recorded such brutality as has been ever since the war and as is now…

— Lucy Parsons

We need to develop respect for our history, despite all of its flaws, and love for the Fatherland. We need to pay the utmost…

— Vladimir Putin

At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.

— Vasily Grossman

The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed on the…

— Heinrich Himmler

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason…

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

It would be easier to fight the Russian army, and it would give me great satisfaction, but I have a responsibility to my people

— Aslan Maskhadov

I think I have one answer, that is partly religious and partly secular; and that is to say, we ought to at least recognize…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“I was involuntarily struck by the aptitude which the Russian displays for accommodating himself to the customs of the people in whose midst he…

— Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov

“To survive and be happy, Russians have so much to bury, to willfully ignore. Small wonder that the intensity of their pleasures and indulgences…

— Owen Matthews

“What? Read more Russian history? It’s bloody and it’s tragic and best served with a lot of vodka. Trust me.”

— Heather Long

“About Russia: Ironically, in the country where common people’s dislike and fear of their state takes place, we can hear much more talks about…

— Leo Pevsner