In the 19th and 20th centuries, many of our fellow countrymen were quite well-known and popular. People read their works, admired them, and, of course, their views on various topics and events were important to the public. Many of the words spoken by our fellow countrymen remain relevant to this day.
Well, let’s start with this, I suppose.
Ilya Yefimovich Repin (artist), January 1910:
Let’s return to the good old days of the rule of law; let’s abolish the death penalty—which brings shame upon us—once and for all.
What a terrible blindness on the part of the military! How can they not see that they’re hanging madmen? Crime is rising just for the sake of crime, and we’re infecting the entire globe with our “truly Russian” banditry.
Death by hanging has become a sport. Even children are fiercely competing to commit suicide, cynically sticking their tongues out at the executioners. How can you not have fun?! The Christmas trees will be hung with the bodies of those who have hanged themselves.
It’s time, it’s time to place us under international guardianship… Yes, we are fatally drawn to this. Pre-reform Persia seems like an ideal to us.
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