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"In Ukraine, you don't build a democracy; it already exists. You just defend it."
"I am an ambitious person and I consider myself as still quite young and I am convinced that I still have time to realize my ambitions."
"And we will all conquer the world! Because we will have a job - they [the Separatists] don't have it. We will have pensions - they don't have them. We will have the support of people - children and pensioners - they will not have it. Our children will go to schools and kindergartens, and they will sit in their basements [bomb shelters]. Because they can't do anything! That's how, that's how we're going to win this war."
"The main guarantor of Ukraine is the Armed Forces of Ukraine."
"External threat accelerated the formation of a modern political Ukrainian nation based on civic patriotism."
"I will accept any choice of the people, because it is a democracy."
"Every statesman must accept the choice of the people."
"I'm not fighting for positions. I had in my life the highest position that Ukrainian can only dream of."
"We must be united on the outside front. Even during a parliamentary campaign, even when we have very tough political confrontations within the country."
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.