Anne Garrels > Quotes

“their kids in hockey, soccer, and judo. Girls are now passionate about ballroom dancing and tango,”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“President Putin has said courts may now mandate treatment for addicts”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“you would get the impression you were in Berlin, not a beleaguered, corrupt Russian industrial city.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“I would give my life for this country, but this country would do nothing for my wife and child had I died.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“The explosion of HIV was triggered by the sharp rise in heroin use in the post-Soviet 1990s.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“the Orthodox Church has quietly used its authority to prevent “nontraditional” communities”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“The Orthodox Church has been central to Russian identity and empire since 988,”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“unlike in the United States, there can be no place in Russia for a free market in religious life.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“I am afraid of being infected,” they tell him, “but I am even more afraid of being left alone.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“Dr. Pestova, who trained in England, has five thousand patients a year.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“say they don’t actually believe in God.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“I am sick of rigged elections. We just know who will win, and we can’t change it. They get rid of anyone who”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“was killed because he was an ethnic Tatar. Interethnic abuse is common in the military”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“We are always waiting for something bad. If something good happens, we are sure something bad will follow.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“that the Orthodox Church must be the country’s unifying force,”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“They wrestle with why it has turned out so badly, unsure whom to blame.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“issue hit home—when their own children started using intravenous drugs and got infected.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“She says everyone around her drank or took drugs. She fell into the same pattern and gradually succumbed to despair.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“With roughly half the population of the United States, Russia now has about the same number of addicts.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“President Putin has to walk a fine line with the Orthodox Church,”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“Evangelicals’ support for Vladimir Putin, his takeover of Crimea,”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“they believe the legacy of the Soviet Union’s demise has left men a lot weaker than women”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“they are among the lucky ones because their husbands don’t drink”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“problem is particularly strong in Russia, where treatment in outlying regions is often inadequate”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“Experts here now estimate at least one in every hundred Chelyabinsk residents is infected.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“advantages to the Orthodox Church, citing it as the source of the nation’s spiritual strength and tradition,”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“public demonstrations, a freer press, and freer elections were not enough to keep the Soviet Union together.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“says addicts are rendered comatose for the first two weeks, pumped full of sedatives to keep them quiet while they undergo detox,”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“Pentecostals, Mormons, and Jehovah’s Witnesses have come in for particular attack.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“Like every Russian city, Chelyabinsk has an impressive monument to those who died during World War II.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia