Russia · Skopia

Quotes

7

Radio broadcast · Speech · Political speech

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Winston Churchill

1939

★ 7.0

Speech · Political speech

The collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.

2005

★ 3.6

Whoever has really seen Russia will find himself content to live anywhere else. It is always good to know that a society exists where no happiness is possible because, by a law of nature, man cannot be happy unless he is free.

Astolphe de Custine

La Russie en 1839 · 1843

★ 3.5

Political literature

There are, at the present time, two great nations in the world, which seem to tend towards the same end, although they started from different points; I allude to the Russians and the Americans... Their starting point is different, and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems to be marked out by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America · 1840

★ 2.1

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Books

6

The Gulag Archipelago

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1973★ 8.9

The Complete Poems

1966★ 7.1

Selected Poems

Osip Mandelstam

1938★ 6.9

A People's Tragedy

1996★ 6.0

Dark Elderberry Branch

Marina Tsvetaeva

2012★ 5.5

Tintin in the Land of the Soviets

1930★ 4.4