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"[recording a message to the world prior to detonating his nuke] I'm a Serb! I'm a Croat! I'm a Muslim! You will look at what I have done and say, Of course - why not - they are all animals. They have slaughtered each other for centuries. But the truth is, I'm not a monster. I'm a human man - I'm just like you, whether you like it or not. For years, we have tried to live together, until a war was waged on us, on all of us: a war waged by our own leaders. And who supplied the Serb cluster bombs, the Croatian tanks, the Muslim artillery shells that killed our sons and daughters? It was the governments of the West who drew the boundaries of our countries - sometimes in ink, sometimes in blood - the blood of our people. And now you dispatch your peacekeepers to write our destiny again. We can never accept this peace that leaves us with nothing but pain, pain the peacemakers must be made to feel. Their wives, their children, their houses and churches. So now you know, now you must understand. Leave us to find our own destiny. [makes the sign of the cross] May God have mercy on us all."
"This is not a test."
"In the fall of 1997, every nuclear device in the world will be accounted for... Except one."
"How do you get the world's attention?"
"George Clooney - Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Devoe"
"Nicole Kidman - Dr. Julia Kelly"
"Marcel IureÈ™ - Dusan Gavrich"
"Aleksandr Baluev - Russian Army General Aleksandr Kodoroff"
"Rene Medvešek - Vlado Mirich"
"Gary Werntz - Hamilton"
"Randall Batinkoff - Ken"
"Jim Haynie - General Garnett"
"Alexander Strobele - Hans Shummaker"
"Holt McCallany - Mark Appleton"
"Michael Boatman - CPN Beach"
"Joan Copeland - Senator Bevens"
"Carlos Gomez - Santiago"
"Armin Mueller-Stahl - Russian Federal Security Service Colonel Dimitri Vertikoff"
"Bruce MacVittie - DOE Helo Tech"
"Harsh Nayyar - Dr. Taraki"
"Aleksandr Peskov - Russian Army Captain Vasiliy, accomplice of Kodoroff"
"Goran Višnjić - Russian Army Sergeant"
"Alexander Kuznetsov - Russian Air and Missile Defense Forces Controller"
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.