"Russia must be loved, not because you want to. Russia is like gangrene on the leg. If you don't take measures against it, it will infect the whole leg."
— Alexander Lebed

January 1, 1970

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Sources

"Maverick General Upstages Yeltsin" in The Washington Post (21 October 1995)