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Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes

Polish - Journalist | March 4, 1932 - January 23, 2007

In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Past Government You Nobody Said

In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.

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Feel You Feelings Kind Cherish Need

In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.

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Experience Complicated Fabric Between

Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.

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British Because Colonial Course Most

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

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Reflection Travel Writing Reading

People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War.

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War People Cold Cold War Context

Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.

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Knowledge People World High Source

The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.

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History War Cold Africa Cold War

The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.

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War Cold Stop Africa Way Anything

The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise.

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Fly World Independence Group Over

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

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Learning Heart Poetry Literature

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.

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God Religion View Understanding Why

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