As the fathers live, so the children play.
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them
...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.
Any fool can bomb a train, but just try sorting out the mess.
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
When Russia started to regain some of its strength as an economy and as a state, the West's reaction - perhaps a subconscious one, based on erstwhile fears - was panic.