Тот, кто станет лидером в этой сфере, станет властелином мира. - Vladimir Putin

On not needing Ukraine to win the Second World War, in a Channel One televised Q&A in 2010-12-16 (quoted in “Russian-Ukrainian Information Wars Over the Meanings of WWII.)

Enemies are right in front of you, you are at war with them, then you make an armistice with them, and all is clear. A traitor must be destroyed, crushed.

Properly speaking, the attempts to use us in their own interests never ceased until quite recently: they sought to destroy our traditional values and force on us their false values that would erode us, our people from within, the attitudes they have been aggressively imposing on their countries, attitudes that are directly leading to degradation and degeneration, because they are contrary to human nature. This is not going to happen. No one has ever succeeded in doing this, nor will they succeed now.