“From Ivan the Terrible to this day, that is, from the moment of the creation of the Russian Empire, there are two Russias in Russia.
The main one, because she always and invariably wins: cynical, deceitful, thieving and endlessly cruel. Which does not feel sorry for any number of people destroyed by it, peoples crushed by it, and even classes “uprooted to the roots”: the nobility, the aristocracy, the “royal intelligentsia,” the Soviet intelligentsia, the merchant class, the kulak, read the hardworking peasant...
The second Russia is absolutely different from the first. Russia is conscientious, hardworking, creative, patient."