“Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.”

“Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Title: Wikiquote: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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As quoted in "Dilemmas of Empire 1850-1918: Power, Territory, Identity" by Dominic Livien in Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 34, No.2 (April 1999), pp. 180

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Dostoevsky, Fyodor. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky

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