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A couple of phrases: Putin vs Stalin
The head is always above the clouds
“Russian President Vladimir Putin knows about the mosaic with his image in the Temple of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation under construction, but believes that it is too early to evaluate his work in this way. This was told by TASS by the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov. “Putin was reported [about this mosaic],” the press secretary said, answering the agency’s question about whether the president is known about this project. “When he was reported about this, he smiled and said:“ Someday, grateful descendants will appreciate our merits, but now it’s too early to do it, ”said the words of the head of state Peskov.
"OK. To put up the monuments to yourself - even more, even higher (the technique will develop). Put a monument on Kazbek, and put a monument on Elbrus - and so that the head is always above the clouds. And then, okay, you can die - the greatest out of all the great, there are no equal to him, there are no comparable in the history of the Earth ... Well, but ... above? Of course, there is no equal to him, but if there, above the clouds, you will raise your eyes above - and there ...? He went again, but slower. This one obscure question sometimes creeped in to Stalin. ”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn. " In the first circle "