“Few accuse Winston Churchill of naiveté, especially about the Soviet Union, yet his quarters, at Yalta and during previous meetings with Stalin, were also wired by the Soviets. In August 1942, during the prime minister’s first stay in Moscow for meetings with Stalin, Churchill received warnings that his rooms were bugged. He was skeptical, but he played to the secret listeners by calling the Russians “lower in the scale of nature than the orangutan,” intending that they-know-that-he-knew.” [CIA.gov]
American WW2 General George S. Patton’s view on Russians >
18th-century British traveller verdict on Russian nature >
Fyodor Dostoyevsky on Russians >
(Dostoyevsky was half-Ukrainian if you did not know)
