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We Russians are small children before the Americans, and we need to be born in America, or at least get used to the Americans for many years in order to become on a level with them.
And it is not just words!
The people are not people, and not even a collection of people; The people lives through people and manifests itself only when people approach their center, their heart, the very human in themselves. The Hour of the People is when we exist as Russians. It feels very good when death is near.
- This is not some kind of mafia, Styopa, - the Russian mafia. Moreover - the Soviet. And the psychology of the Soviet soul does not fit into a normal American head.
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People just need to be reminded more often that they are people. What are the Russians. One blood - one earth. Evil is everywhere. There will always be hunters to sell you for thirty pieces of silver. And more and more troubles are pouring on the peasant: either the Tatars three times in the autumn, then hunger, then pestilence. And he keeps working, working, working. He bears his cross humbly. He does not despair, but is silent and endures. He only prays to God for strength. Will not the Almighty forgive them for their darkness? After all, you yourself know - something doesn’t work out or you are tired, you are tormented, and suddenly, you will meet someone’s gaze in the crowd, a human one ... and as if you took communion. And everything is easier now. Is not it?
I still know little Russians, but those whom I met conquered me with their nobility and generosity! I thought a lot: I chose Russia! I want to become Russian and I will do everything to make the Russian people love me!
We are Russians! We are real people!
The Russian people, as it were, enjoy their suffering.
No literature is so full of resentment as young Russian literature. The books of Dostoevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy are simply teeming with heroes charged with resentment. This state of affairs is a consequence of centuries of oppression of the people by the autocracy and the impossibility, due to the absence of a parliament and freedom of the press, to give vent to the feelings that arise under the pressure of authority.
But the main area of his achievements, as understood by these 86%, is international politics, where he, as people say, "forced other countries to recognize the status of the great power of Russia." This is a symbolic fulfillment of the everyday feeling of the constant humiliation of the little man. These are extremely important things. It's when it comes to why people approve of Putin, about values, and not about the interests of raising salaries, which they hope for, but do not really believe. Our oppositionists do not understand this and therefore cannot put forward an alternative system of grounds for self-respect.
Perhaps French men are romantic, but Russians are smarter.
In the office, after interrogation and beatings, targets were sewn onto Andrey's jacket and pants - white circles with a red heart. Such targets in Buchenwald marked the most dangerous political ones: Russian officers and prisoners caught escaping from captivity.
Quote Explanation: This mark allowed the guards to shoot him without a miss at the first opportunity.
- Being a prisoner of war does not mean being a traitor.
- People like lieutenant colonel, like steel. They don't bend. Russian character!
- To spite the Victorians! Why did they suddenly decide that only we, Russians, are capable of being barbarians? ..
