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"Who dares to reason or predict when high feelings take possession of a man?"
"Glory to the brave who dare to love, knowing that it will all end. Glory to the mad who live as if they were immortal."
"I must warn you: we are restless guests, I am a terrible person, a tyrant, a despot, insidious, capricious, vindictive. And the most offensive thing is that it is not my fault. My ancestors are to blame. Great-grandfathers, great-grandmothers, great-uncles and aunts, various forefathers and foremothers. They behaved like the last pigs in their life, and now I am cleaning up their past. And I myself am a kind, clever man by nature, I love poetry and prose, music, painting, fishing, cats."
"Today I will have a party. Joyfully, good-naturedly one, with all sorts of harmless antics. Prepare the dishes, plates, I will break all of this. Remove the grain from the barn: I will set the barn on fire."
"An execution block, an executioner, and a glass of vodka. The vodka is for me, everything else for him."
"As a saint honoris causa, a great martyr honoris causa and a Pope honoris causa of our kingdom, I approach the sacrament of the rite."
"You hug me like you have a right to do so. I like it. I really like it."
"I've been chasing you for three days to tell you how indifferent I am to you!"
"I have seen enough of these noble sufferers, wandering musicians and beggar singers, and worse still, these minstrels, these tormentors of human souls. It is they who push deceived fools to their deaths. It is they who invented love!"
"If you want to point out my mistakes, then first praise me, you scoundrel."
"Oleg Yankovsky as the Wizard"
"Aleksandr Abdulov as the Bear"
"Yevgeniya Simonova as the Princess"
"Yevgeny Leonov as the King"
"Irina Kupchenko as the Wizard's wife"
"Andrei Mironov as the Minister Administrator"
"Yekaterina Vasilyeva as Emilia the First Lady"
"Yury Solomin as Emil the Innkeeper"
"Yervand Arzumanian as the First Minister"
"Vsevolod Larionov as the Hunter"
"Andrei Leonov as the Hunter's student"
"Vladimir Dolinsky as the Executioner"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.