'..who incite radical nationalism and hostility toward neighboring peoples .. they are setting the stage for .. the suffering of millions.''Historians and writers who incite radical nationalism and hostility toward neighboring peoples and who rehash long-ago injuries must realize that they are setting the stage for ethnic cleansing and the suffering of millions. Unfortunately, people rarely learn from their own experiences and almost never from the experiences of others. But if we do not draw lessons from what happened to our country and to other twentieth-century empires, we may become a threat to the world. That is the worst thing that could happen to Russia.'
- Yegor Gaidar,
Collapse of an Empire -
The Grandeur and the Fall of Empires, page 25
Context'..[Andrei Piontkovsky] says Putin will not stop at Ukraine..''I have said it so often: if the West does not stabilize the East, the East will destabilize the West.' - Václav Havel'..Cutting the flow of riches to the Kremlin..' - Emma Ashford'..[Mr. Putin] has made clear that he embraces confrontation with the West..'Ukraine - '..Insofar as we wish for peace and democracy, we are going to have to begin by getting the story right.'