Alexander Solzhenitsyn. (№ 379757)

I see with alarm that the awakening Russian national consciousness in much of the proportion of its can not get rid prostranstvennogo of thinking, from the Imperial intoxication, took over from the Communists never existed phony "Soviet patriotism" and is proud of the "great Soviet power", which in the era of Lenin, the second [Leonid Brezhnev] only izgledala the last performance of our decades in the vast and useless (and now empty, destroy) weapons, disgraced us, introduced the entire planet as a fierce, greedy, an immense invader - when our knees are already shaking we are about to fall from impotence. This is a harmful distortion of our consciousness: "but a big country, with us all considered to be" is already in our dying, the whole-hearted support of communism.