Russians

Russians (Russian: русские, russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe. They are the most numerous ethnic group in Europe. The majority of ethnic Russians live in Russia.

Russians should realize that they are Orthodox in the first place; Russians in the second place; and only in the third place, people. ~ Aleksandr Dugin

Quotes

• [T]hrough the Russian people will be realized the last thought of God, the thought of the End of the World.
  • Aleksandr Dugin, as quoted in "Dugin’s Evil Theology" (18 June 2014), by Robert Zubrin, National Review

• Russians should realize that they are Orthodox in the first place; Russians in the second place; and only in the third place, people.
  • Aleksandr Dugin, The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia (1997), Russia: Arktogeja, p. 255, as quoted in "Aleksandr Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics" (31 January 2004), by John B. Dunlop, Demokratizatsiya, Chapter: The Gorbachev Debacle

• A Russian is self-assured just because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe that anything can be known.
  • Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Book IX, Chapter Ten, p. 898, as quoted in "Russia’s Paranoid Foreign Policy" (28 November 2018), by Zachery Tyson Brown, RealClearDefense

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Russians at Wikipedia