"A Russian is self-assured just because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe that anything can be known."
— Russians

January 1, 1970

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Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Book IX, Chapter Ten, p. 898, as quoted in "Russia’s Paranoid Foreign Policy" (November 28, 2018), by Zachery Tyson Brown, RealClearDefense