Decision Quote by Leon Trotsky

The war against Russia is an important chapter in the German nation's struggle for existence. [...] The objective of this battle must be the…

— Franz Halder

“While under the tsars the average number of executions was only seventeen, by 1918 the Cheka was killing an average of a thousand people…

— Paul Johnson

“The papers were always talking about the debt owed to society. According to them, it had to be paid . But that doesn't speak…

— Albert Camus

...the collapse of tsarism, while not improbably, was certainly not inevitable.

— Richard Pipes

“[Aftermath of the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881] What happened to the conspirators - Zhelyabov already in prison, Perovskaya, Kibalchich and the…

— Edward Crankshaw

Time and time again, the obstinate refusal of the tsarist regime to concede reforms turned what should have been a political problem into a…

— Orlando Figes

“With the Russian Empire teetering on the brink of collapse, the tsarist regime responded to the crises with its usual incompetence and obstinacy. The…

— Orlando Figes

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

The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia's invasion of Georgia only marked its passing. Russia has emerged…

— Ivan Krastev

“The only real recourse that [Russian] people had against tsarist rule was violence and rebellion. It was once remarked that Russia's constitution was "absolutism…

— Alan Beattie

After the unlawful decision to recognize Kosovo, everyone expected Russia to respond by recognizing the independence and sovereignty of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. This…

— Vladimir Putin

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at…

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn