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“Russia is a country with unpredictable past.”
― Rodric Braithwaite, Russia: Myths and Realities: The History of a Country with an Unpredictable Past

“The Russians are fascinating, ingenious, creative, sentimental, warm-hearted, generous, obstinately courageous, endlessly tough, often devious, brutal and ruthless. Ordinary Russians firmly believe that they are warmer-hearted then others, more loyal to their friends, more willing to sacrifice themselves for the common good, more devoted to the fundamental truth of life. They give the credit to the Russian soul as broad and all embracing as the Russian land itself. Their passionate sense of Russia's greatness is paradoxically undermined by an underlying and corrosive pessimism and it is tempered by resentment that their country is insufficiently understood and respected by foreigners.”
― Rodric Braithwaite, Russia: Myths and Realities: The History of a Country with an Unpredictable Past