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Aleksandr Lebed
Russian
Politician
About the author
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,
Russian
Politician
#President
#Power
#Crisis
There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.
Aleksandr Lebed,
Russian
Politician
#Reason
In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years.
Aleksandr Lebed,
Russian
Politician
#Years
#Democracy
#Order
#Generations
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,
Russian
Politician
#People
#Past
#Future
I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.
Aleksandr Lebed,
Russian
Politician
#Right
#Contempt
For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.
Aleksandr Lebed,
Russian
Politician
#Years
#Country
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,
Russian
Politician
#Now
#People
#Will
#Policy
#Law
#First
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,
Russian
Politician
#Years
#Democracy
#states
#Sleep
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,
Russian
Politician
#Nothing
#War
#President
#Power
You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.
Aleksandr Lebed,
Russian
Politician
#Kids
#People
#Russia
I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.
Aleksandr Lebed,
Russian
Politician
#Will
#Man