Ukraine Quotes
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I am very glad to hear this, since I come from the Ukraine. From now on I can sleep peacefully. I will immediately telegraph my daughter in Kiev.
nikita khrushchev— Khrushchev's reply when the Swedish prime minister Erlander assured him that Sweden had no intention of repeating the 1709 Battle of Poltava in eastern Ukraine between Russia and Sweden. From a Swedish-Soviet summit which began on March 30, 1956, in Moscow, as quoted in Raoul Wallenberg (1985) by Eric Sjöquist, p. 125 ISBN 9153650875
Ukraine is facing a serious threat of isolation as some local political forces want to put an end to democracy and democratic reforms in the country
— Regnum, July 25, 2006
The key point to bear in mind is that Russia cannot be in Europe without Ukraine also being in Europe, whereas Ukraine can be in Europe without Russia being in Europe.
zbigniew brzezinski— Chapter 4, The Black Hole, p. 122
"Bring forth the horse !" the horse was brought; In truth , he was a noble steed, A Tartar of the Ukraine breed, Who look'd as though the speed of thought Were in his limbs.
lord byron— Mazeppa (1819), stanza 9
For two years now, my office has had the honour and the privilege of sponsoring seminars on the functioning of government in this country for Eastern Europeans. These seminars and exchanges have brought together representatives from such nations as Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republic, Roumania, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and the Ukraine, all of them anxious to learn what makes a society as diverse as Canada work and how our institutions make it governable.
john allen fraser— Afterword, p. 173
Treat the Jews (express it politely: Jewish petty bourgeoisie) and urban inhabitants in the Ukraine with an iron rod, transferring them to the front, not letting them into the government agencies (except in an insignificant percentage, in particularly exceptional circumstances, under class control).
Vladimir Lenin— As quoted in Richard Pipes, The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive (1996), p. 77
Perl is the most popular web programming language. Over a million people program with Perl. That is approximately one Perl programmer for every resident of Hyderabad, Pakistan or Donetsk, Ukraine.
— John P. Flynt (2006) Perl Power!: The Comprehensive Guide. p. 7
“You don't understand, George, that Ukraine is not even a state. What is Ukraine? Part of its territories is Eastern Europe, but the greater part is a gift from us.”
vladimir putin— Speaking to George H. Bush at the NATO Bucharest Summit, April 4, 2008.[23] Originally reported in Kommersant.ru.
Ukraine is showing Belarus an example of how one should fight for freedom. I am sure that our countries have a common future in Europe, where neither Ukrainians nor Belarusians will die.
— Vladimir Neklyaev, a Belarusian opposition leader, quoted on CBS News, "As Ukraine protests grow, slain demonstrators mourned", January 26, 2014.
