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
.
- 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 than others, more loyal to their friends, more willing to sacrifice themselves for the
common good
, more devoted to the fundamental truths 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.
- [T]hrough the Russian people will be realized the last thought of
God
, the thought of the
End of the World
.
- Russians should realize that they are
Orthodox
in the first place; Russians in the second place; and only in the third place,
people
.
- [W]hy should the
Palatine Boors
be suffered to swarm into our Settlements, and by herding together establish
their Language
and Manners to the Exclusion of ours? Why should
Pennsylvania
, founded by the
English
, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion. Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All
Africa
is
black
or tawny.
Asia
chiefly tawny.
America
(exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in
Europe
, the
Spaniards
,
Italians
,
French
, Russians and
Swedes
, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the
English
, make the principal Body of
White People
on the Face of the
Earth
. I could wish their Numbers were increased. And while we are, as I may call it, Scouring our Planet, by clearing America of Woods, and so making this Side of
our Globe
reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in
Mars
or
Venus
, why should we in the Sight of Superior Beings, darken its People? why increase the Sons of Africa, by Planting them in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all
Blacks
and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red? But perhaps I am partial to the Complexion of my Country, for such Kind of Partiality is natural to Mankind.
- Kremlin-connected media outlets and Vladimir Putin himself have increasingly stoked xenophobia and hyper-nationalism among ethnic Russians, but whenever major Western outlets begin to notice just how bad the situation has become, the Kremlin leader as he has in the past has denounced the slogan “Russia for the [Ethnic] Russians” as dangerous.
- The Great Russians, [founder of the
Zalesskaya Rus
civic initiative Ilya Lazarenko] argues, were the first victims of
Muscovite
imperialism
; and thus it is important to recognize that “Moscow is hardly [a] symbol of ‘Russianness’ but rather of a
Babylonian
mixing” that was inevitably the result of the messianic
ideas
which arose around that city rather than out of the minds of Great Russians as such.
- These people were of all races, colors, and creeds.
French
were in the north and in the Carolinas.
Dutch
had built the town on
Manhattan
island, and their patroons' estates in the Hudson valley; now they were building their own cabins in the Mohawk Indian country that is now New York State.
Germans
had settled in the
Jerseys
and in the far west, beyond
Philadelphia
. Germans and
Scotch-Irish
were climbing the Carolina mountains;
Swedes
were in
Delaware
,
English
and
French
and
Dutch
and
Irish
were settled in
Massachusetts
, the
New Hampshire
Grants,
Connecticut
, and
Virginia
. Mingled with all these were
Italians
,
Portuguese
,
Finns
,
Arabs
,
Armenians
, Russians,
Greeks
, and
Africans
from a dozen very different
African
peoples and cultures. Black, brown, yellow and white, all these peoples were some of them free and some of them
slaves
. Also they were intermarried with the
American Indians
.
- You ain't from Russia, so bitch why you Russian?
- The Russians are serious people. One of the reasons
Khrushchev
was put on the shelf back in 1964 is that the proud Russians became ashamed of his crude antics at the
U.N.
and in other
international forums
.
- The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a
European
, but an
Asiatic
, and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a
Chinaman
or a
Japanese
, and from what I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian has no regard for human life and is an all out son of bitch, barbarian, and
chronic drunk
.
- Russians have always been suckers for greatness. They would sell their last shirt for its elusive promise.
- Imagine that one not very fine day two or three of your states in the
Southwest
, in the space of 24 hours, declare themselves
independent
of the U.S. They declare themselves a fully
sovereign
nation, decreeing that
Spanish
will be the only language. All
English-speaking
residents, even if their ancestors have lived there for 200 years, have to take a test in the Spanish language within one or two years and swear allegiance to the new nation. Otherwise they will not receive
citizenship
and be deprived of
civic
,
property
and
employment rights
. What would be the reaction of the
United States
? I have no doubt that it would be immediate military intervention. But today Russia faces precisely this scenario. In 24 hours she lost eight to 10 purely Russian provinces, 25 million ethnic Russians who have ended up in this very way--as "undesirable aliens." In places where their fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers have lived since way back--even from the 17th century--they face
persecution
in their jobs and the suppression of their
culture
,
education
and
language
. Meanwhile, in
Central Asia
, those wishing to leave are not permitted to take even their
personal property
. The authorities tell them, "There is no such concept as 'personal property'!"
- 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.
- Russians follow orders; people are afraid ? more afraid of
the state
? than of
dying
.
- [to drivers] not forget that the health and lives of other people depend on you… comply with the established rules of behavior on the road.
- Encyclopedic article on
Russians
on Wikipedia