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Russian Quotes by Ryszard Kapuscinski
- In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between…
- There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something…
- 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…
- I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different…
- The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
- There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a…
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