#russia

Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#homosexuality #list #locked #locked up #men

Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN. ↗

— Ben Stein

#bad news #ban #because #build #capital

I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#actions speak #deal #him #i #keep

Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#central #europe #find #food #good

The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#certainly #effect #entrance #hastening #into

There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#been #between #feeling #getting #government

There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#could #desire #desires #explode #fortress

I don't want you to ever doubt how much I love you, how much I want you, how much I need you. ↗

— Jennifer Comeaux

#russian #love

Вообще, знаешь, в чем разница между сексом и любовью? Секс - это действие; занятие любовью - состояние. ↗

— Anatoly Toss

#inspirational #love #inspirational

Not sorry, not calling, not crying All will pass like smoke of white apple trees Seized by the gold of autumn, I will no longer be young. ↗

— Sergei Yesenin

#life-changing #russian-poetry #sorrow #change