Russians

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

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.

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