#russia

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word "modernity" if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#already #china #could #exclude #islamic

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years. ↗

— Stendhal

#distance #fifty #french #imitate #russians

There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#also #bolshevism #death #end #execution

If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space? ↗

— Valentina Tereshkova

#railroad #russia #space #why #women

Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward. ↗

— Valentina Tereshkova

#constantly #exploration #forward #great #great responsibility

It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#feels #good #inside #russian #sing

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#dead #dog #lion #living #many

Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew. ↗

— Anton Rubinstein

#christian #christians #german #germans #jew

I do recall hearing a conversation in our home in Strausberg, between my mother and my father, where my mother sounded very angry that my cousin had let the Rödels down by having to be dragged out of Oma’s house, crying for his mother and shouting that he did not want to return to the war in Russia. Like a great many other soldiers throughout that period, he died in Russia on 5 May, 1944. He was just twenty years of age, and is buried somewhere in that country. ↗

— Alfred Nestor

#alfred-nestor #author-alfred-nestor #hitler #hitler-s-germany #nazi-party

It reflects like an optical instrument and responds to changes in the weather so sensitively that it seems like a part of the sky rather than of the land. And along with all that, Baikal is distinctly Asiatic: if a camel caravan could somehow transport Baikal across Siberia to Europe, and curious buyers unwrapped it in a marketplace, none would mistake it for a lake from around there. ↗

— Ian Frazier

#russia #siberia #travel #change