The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal. My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education. History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism. Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.
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