Zhirinovskyisms

[Ulysses]

"I’m telling you honestly that I’m doing everything possible to liquidate the Baltic states. I’m saying this openly so that there will be no cause for baseless accusations later....You feel that you are independent, but this will end for you with your own blood….You haven’t had luck geographically because you are located next door to us. You are directly on our path to the sea. Russia needs ports and therefore the occupation of the Baltic states is inevitable….War is inevitable, and Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will disappear completely and finally from the political map of world." —Russian nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky in an interview with Estonia’s Postimees newspaper on April 26, 1996.

"If democracy in Estonia is only for Estonians, then Russian bullets, too, are for Estonians." —Zhirinovsky, charging Estonia with locking ethnic Russians out of the electoral process by denying them automatic citizenship. February, 1994.

"If Rozhok perishes, the price for his life will be the lives of 900,000 Estonians." —Zhirinovsky attacking Tallinn officials for launching a criminal investigation against his Estonian-based representative, Pyotr Rozhok. February, 1994.

"From time to time, it would be useful if Zhirinovsky took some tranquillizers." —Former Estonian Prime Minister Mart Laar to CITY PAPER, March, 1994.

"I will allow no one to harm Russians." —a Zhirinovsky campaign poster from December, 1993.

"A nation of nine hundred thousand, and all thieves." —Zhirinovsky, arguing that Estonians robbed the modern, Soviet-financed Tallinn Port from Russia. December, 1993.

"If you ask me if Zhirinovsky is crazy, my answer to that would be: was Hitler crazy?" —Former Estonian Prime Minister Mart Laar to CITY PAPER, December, 1993.

"This Christmas, Santa Claus comes from Russia with messages wrapped in beautiful paper, but the messages are all poisonous." —Estonian President Lennart Meri to CITY PAPER, likening Zhirinovsky to Father Christmas, December, 1993.

"If Zhirinovsky ever becomes the decision maker in Russia, he is going to bite in this direction first." —President Lennart Meri to CITY PAPER, December, 1993.

"When Zhirinovsky first appeared, we thought he was a good joke. Then we thought he was a bad joke. Now we don’t think he is a joke at all." —Attributed to an Estonian deputy in the Times of London. December, 1993.

[Ulysses]

"We, as individuals with high moral character, would prefer not to meet a person who still can't sort out his relationship with his secretary. In the traditions of Russian society, in such situations, one divorces the old wife and marries the secretary."
Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, telling the Russian Parliament that Clinton should have stayed home

"We will create new Hiroshimas and Nagasakis. I will not hesitate to deploy nuclear weapons. You know what Chernobyl meant for our country. You will get your own Chernobyl in Germany."
- Vladimir Zhirinovsky 1993 complaining about alleged German interference in Russian affairs.

"..We Russians don't drink any more. We now work on computers, we use computers to send viruses to the West and then we poach your money. We have the best hackers in the world. We do not need to drink or smoke...We do not drink, smoke, have drugs and we don't have AIDS, that's what you have got in the West."
-- Vladimir Zhirinovsky,

[Andrej_]

I have a book on the floor right now, called 'My Struggle', by Vladimir Wolfovich Zhirinovsky (Eidstein). In a way hes expressing the thought of an average Russian.

[Ulysses]

he polled quite high before the elections. What percent of the vote did he garner?

He's very frank about his views and that's one reason I like reading his speeches/rants.

Originally posted by Andrej_
I have a book on the floor right now, called 'My Struggle', by Vladimir Wolfovich Zhirinovsky (Eidstein). In a way hes expressing the thought of an average Russian.

[justoleme]

[Andrej_]

Zhirinovsky's party LDPR, Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, got 23% of the parlimentary votes in 1993.

[justoleme]

If Hitler would have been a communist then he would have been a nice guy?