And this system sorted out the Chechen war in just 20 days. This way, I used the President’s power, he didn’t use me. It wasn’t hard for me to leave – it isn’t my scene. I have nothing to do there. Aleksandr Lebed Read Quote
As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh. Aleksandr Lebed Read Quote
First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will. Aleksandr Lebed Read Quote
For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime. Aleksandr Lebed Read Quote
I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man – maybe our grandchildren will be different. Aleksandr Lebed Read Quote
I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn’t go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations. Aleksandr Lebed Read Quote
I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It’s the people who had their past and future taken from them – they don’t get paid – many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go. Aleksandr Lebed Read Quote
In order to build basic democracy here we’ll need lives of two generations – at least forty years. Aleksandr Lebed Read Quote
