Putin Quotes Quotes

“The Russian oligarchic system is the quintessence of statist depravity, where all industry is controlled by a small number of men ruthless enough to rise to the top of a corrupt patronage system, where government serves the interests of elites, money and privilege flow to the top, the people are exploited through a venomous cocktail of brutality and graft, and truth is the enemy of the state.

Russian oligarchy is economic survival of the fittest, the ultimate, balls-out Darwinian experiment in wealth consolidation by the most wicked, immoral and dishonest ― government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich at the expense and misery of everyone else.”
― Matt Szajer, No: No

“Those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those who do regret it have no brain.”
― Mark Galeotti, We Need to Talk About Putin: Why the West Gets Him Wrong, and How to Get Him Right

“Fascists like Putin, Trump, and their MAGA Nazis hate democracy, because they feel they're entitled to rule, but democracy keeps getting in the way.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert