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1952, October 1952, October 7th 1952, Russia, Europe, …the Soviet Union,
Sankt-Peterburg,
the world,
eastern Europe,
the Northern Hemisphere, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Leningradskaya Oblast’,
Ostrov Vasil’yevskiy,
North Eurasia, the MSST region, Africa-Eurasia,
the G8, US postal Group 4, the UK European postal area, Russia and Kazakhstan,
Eurasia
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"You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place."; "We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them."; "To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many."; "The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism."; "The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history."; …"Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror."; "Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots."; "Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism."; "Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy."; "Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life."; "Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle."; "Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms."; "No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights."; "History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior."
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