Talk:Russia

I've killed my son! I've killed my son! ~ Ivan the Terrible

[To the] ...Ukrainian Armed Forces. Comrade officers, Your fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers did not fight the Nazi occupiers and did not defend our common Motherland to allow today’s neo-Nazis to seize power in Ukraine. You swore the oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people and not to the junta, the people’s adversary which is plundering Ukraine and humiliating the Ukrainian people.... I urge you to immediately lay down arms and go home.

Has not the political thinking in the world changed substantially? Does not most of the world community already regard weapons of mass destruction as unacceptable for achieving political objectives? ~ Mikhail Gorbachev

As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell him nothing, even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents and pictures. ...he will refuse to believe it... That's the tragedy of the situation of demoralization.
~ Yuri Bezmenov

I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as not to miss the great chance at the turn of centuries and millenia and make the current extremely difficult transition to a peaceful world order. ~Mikhail Gorbachev

I think many Russians, but also a lot of Westerners, make a very serious mistake in trying to look for… a better person to become president. They are searching for such a person in Navalny, in myself, but that’s a mistake. Anyone who replaces Putin is going to take Russia along the same imperialist route.
[...] It is a very large and very diverse country, and if you want to manage it from one central spot, you need to have a very strong bureaucratic apparatus. To have such a huge apparatus at the centre has to be explained by having to protect the country from an outside enemy – there is no other explanation that people will accept.
~ Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Russism is a special form of misanthropic ideology based on great-power chauvinism, complete lack of spirituality, and immorality. It differs from the well-known forms of fascism, racism, nationalism, in its particular cruelty, both to man and to nature ... Possessing a slave psychology, it parasitizes using false history, on occupied territories and oppressed peoples.
~ Dzhokhar Dudayev

There is not a single misanthropic ideology in the world, even in theory, acting more cruelly and cynically than Russism ... There are no moral principles - they are all like animals. I don't want this war to stop. I need this war, its continuation. This war will go to the territory of Russia - whether Russia wants it or not ... And the Western countries, the world community will not let it stop, in order to completely isolate Russia and destroy it as a state, so that this predatory beast on earth no longer exists. ~ Dzhokhar Dudayev

Expanded

Expanded from stub - [1]. Cirt (talk) 03:54, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Additional quotes

See also additional quotes, at: w:Portal:Russia/Selected quote. Cirt (talk) 23:08, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Quote removed from page.

The following quote was removed from the page by another editor. Please discuss whether it should be included on the page. Cheers! BD2412 T 20:37, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

• The Russians are a queer mixture of strength and weakness. They have got a passion in their intellect, say, a passionate intellect. They have a distracted and restless emotional being, but there is something behind it which is very fine and psychic, though their soul is not very healthy. And therefore I am not right in saying that Gandhi is a Russian Christian, because he is so very dry. He has got the intellectual passion and a great moral will-force, but he is more dry than the Russians. The gospel of suffering that he is preaching has its root in Russia as nowhere else in Europe... other Christian nations don't believe in it. At the most they have it in the mind, but the Russians have got it in their very blood. They commit a mistake in preaching the gospel of suffering, but we also commit in India a mistake in preaching the idea of vairagya [disgust with the world].
  • Sri Aurobindo, June 22, 1926 quoted from Sri Aurobindo, ., Nahar, S., Aurobindo, ., & Institut de recherches évolutives (Paris). India's rebirth: A selection from Sri Aurobindo's writing, talks and speeches. Paris: Institut de Recherches Evolutives. 3rd Edition (2000). [2]

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Censorship = pushing a pov, blatantly supportig one side of the story

Someone the power to do so, please add this to the "Russia" page:

The neutrality of this article is disputed. Please see the relevant discussion on the talk page.

Putinverstehers

I see that my forerunners added many quotes by what Germans would call Putinverstehers, self-proclaimed experts who enjoy thinking they understand Russia and Putin, but really don't. Or left-wing thinkers with the fallacious mindset of "America = bad, therefore Russia = good." However, I believe those quotes must be kept in the article – the more varied the points of view, the better. It's up to the reader to think for themselves and make their own conclusions, we're not addressing children. --Spafky (talk) 07:49, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

Source of this quote?

Russia is in favor of a multipolar world, a democratic world order, strengthening the system of international law, and for developing a legal system in which any small country, even a very small country, can feel itself secure, as if behind a stone wall. ~Vladimir Putin

When did he say this? --Spafky (talk) 10:02, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

too political

This page is not focused enough on quotes about Russia as a nation, and too much on its politics.... Synotia (talk) 09:40, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

I agree. The topic of this article is Russia the country, not Russian invasion of Ukraine. HouseOfChange (talk) 17:24, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

I'm in the process of moving most of the politics to other articles Ficaia (talk) 17:26, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, Ficaia. That is a worthy project. HouseOfChange (talk) 17:30, 23 April 2024 (UTC)