The quote is taken from The Diary of a Writer: “I have said that Russians are disliked in Europe. That they are disliked, I believe, this no one will dispute. Inter alia we, all Russians without exception, are being accused in Europe of being awful liberals—moreover, revolutionists—and of the fact that we are always inclined … Continue reading Europeans perceive in Russians barbarians ‘rejoicing over the thought that something somewhere may be destroyed’, – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 150 years ago