Russian Empire Quotes
The reasons for this are a puzzle for which there are a number of theoretical explanation ranging from the basic fairness of the Fins—they protected all their Jews even though they were weak allies of Nazi Germany—to the fact that 1906 was the aftermath of a major war in the area and the female franchise was only one part of an overall reorganization of society. Whatever the reasons, women got the vote in Finland before England, America, France or any of the other more “modern” and “sophisticated” nations.
Theis was the phrase he used to describe the collapse of the Soviet Union. This and other statements he made about the breakup of the Russian empire, together with his actons reagading foreign affairs, led many Western observers to think that Putin was trying to build up Russia to be amajor World Power as it was relatively recently. This annual address to the Duma has the importance of the United States' President with the State of the Nation Address. Every phrase and sentence is very carefully crafted. Also see Quotation 644184 under Related Quotes foir a more explicit statement,
Comment to President Teddy Roosevelt as while he, as US Secretary of State, dealt extensively with a deceitful Russia as they attempted to expand into Chinese Manchuria which eventually led to the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905.
During the Cold War and afterwards many Americans attributed the problems we were having with the Soviet Union emenated from the fact that they were Communists, and our focus was anti-communism. Kennen, however argued that it was not Communism that was the cause of the Aggression of the Soviet Union. It was an extension of the Russian Culture. After the Soviet Union collapsed, and Communism was rejected by the Russians, we still had a great deal of Russian aggression and Foreign Policy problems with Russia. Kennan was right. It was the Russian culture, history, values and traditions that were the primary cause of most of the problems with Russia.
Such a comcept has been shared by most autocratic governments like Nazi Germany, but before and after Germans did not see this subservience to and power of the state as desirable or even necessary. The Vatican has had periods like this. But this Sistema has been a part of Russian culture during the millinium of Czarist rule. It was used andn explicitly made a part of Lennin and the Russian Revolutionaries, and then so heavily used by Joseph Stalin before, during and after WWII. It continued under the Post Stalinist Communist leader and when the Soviet Union fell and Russia became less authoratoran, it was not utilized but it was deeply embedded in the Russian psyche and culture as demonstrated by the fact that Vladimir Putin began t use it as an instrument of his governance.
