"......A powerful beast has broken into Russia's political forest. A real wolf with sharp teeth. He will strangle all the sick and weak, and fight all his equals. Only now we remember that a healthy forest needs a strong predator. Without him the forest grows decrepit, wilts, and dies."

Alexander Mitta

"No matter what the political destiny of Vladimir Volfovich Zhrinovsky, he is already the most influential, flamboyant, and mysterious politician on the Russian scene. If he comes to power, Zhirnovsky could be as powerful and dangerous a leader as Stalin. No wonder Zhirinovsky's growing popularity and political successes are causing such commotion, even panic, both inside Russia and abroad. Whether we like it or not, we must acknowledge Zhirinovsky's growing popularity and political successes are causing such commotion, even panic, both inside Russia and abroad. Whether we like it or not, we must acknowledge Zhirnovsky and take him seriously. We must learn to distinguish his slapstick antics and shocking behavior from the actual political-a politician with a well-conceived program of action."

Vladimir Solovyov & Elena Klepikova

Zhirinovsky...Russian Fascism and the making of a Dictator

"Today the whole world knows about me, not just the whole country-from Kalingrad to Kamchatka. They know me in Iraq as maybe the closest friend of the Iraqi people. In Finland, conversely, they are afraid of me. They are not too fond of me in Poland, but in Germany they are well disposed; certain political forces in France and South Africa are also sympathetic. I have supporters and opponents in every country of the world.....I am included among the group of eight leaders of right-wing political parties of the world, along with leaders of Germany, France, Italy, Britain, and Austria. My name is in various directories, there are reports on me by various intelligence services of the world. I am mentioned in correspondence between officials at the highest levels. In reports to the presidents of the world's leading countries."

Zhirinovsky

   "Americans remain the last nation, the last people, the last state, that still makes a noise, that still sends in its quick reaction forces, that imposes its will on Iraq, Libya, Serbia. Leave these people in peace. Do not interfere in the affairs of Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, Australia. Look after your own problems. Do not tell us what to do in the Baltic's, in Central Asia, in the Dniester region, in the Transcaucasus. And we will not tell you what to do in the southern states, or ask why you kidnapped the legitimate president of Panama: why you sent a landing force to the island of Grenada. A time will come when you will have to answer for it."

Zhirinovsky

"Russia's last dash to the south will also preclude World War III. It is not only the solution to Russia's internal problems and the pacification of the peoples of this region. It is also the resolution of a global task, of planetary significance. America, too, will have tranquility because wars have ended in this region and there are no Red, or Muslim, or Turkic, or Islamic fundamentalist threats. Tasks of geopolitical significance will be resolved. The idea of the last 'dash' to the south is noble, it entails only positive consequences. However, despite everything, this a method of treatment, and it is possible that someone may have a negative reaction. But this is the solution of world problems, and not everyone can be happy."

-Zhironovsky

"Zhirinovsky is not crazy; his diagnosis is the same as all the social psychoses of the little man of Russia today.The insanity of Russian life has only one figure who could express it as it is-and that's obviously not Yetltsin. It's Zhirinovsky. Because Russia in fact (all of its except the major cities) is pregnant not with democracy but with fascism. It dreams of dictatorship, or order, and of its lost greatness. Zhirinovsky is an expression of these dreams. He is the right man at the right time. I think in the near future we will see how he grabs the presidential seat he needs. Yetlsin has prepared a fabulous present for him- unlimited power enshrined in the new Constitution. "

Alexander Mitta (Moscow film director)

          Zhirinovsky

"We have to light a match in one place, and the whole planet will explode. We have such a quantity of weapons, of any type, that all anyone has to do is to explode something one time in one place, and if something explodes on the territory of Russia, the entire planet will perish. In our country alone-we don't have to attack anyone-in our country alone. If we explode everything in our country, the planet will perish.

So in that sense there's no risk to us. People say that America is interfering. America will not interfere anywhere, they'll clear off to their own country, to Washington and New York, they'll keep silent and will never interfere in the conducting of Russia's independent foreign policy. The Turks will shut up, the Persians will shut up, the Afghanis will shut up. They will keep quiet and write down what the President of Russia says. They will write it down and obey it."

Zhirinovsky

"We have the same enemies as Iraq-America, Israel, and Turkey....America and Israel are both waging wars against Russia and Iraq. This country (Iraq) is our faithful ally who will never betray us."

Zhirinovsky (upon his return from a meeting with Saddam)

"I will terrorize them....Because we are hungry, angry, humiliated, and offended....The American won't fight-he can't. He couldn't fight in the Gulf, where there was a desert, but we have mountains, forests, and guerillas. We already have battle stations in space. They don't know where they are. And there are weapons on them aimed at the U.S. If Yeltsin has told them that he supposedly gave the order to retarget part of the missiles away from America, I will do the opposite; I'll tell Clinton that we'll target all the missiles on America. All the space stations will be aimed at America. Submarines will be all over America's shores. If their two submarines come near Crimea and Murmansk, we'll sic our whole fleet on them. If they destroy them in the Hudson Bay near New York, New York will fry. So the danger of World War III is ruled out."

Zhirnovsky (His manifesto in Liberal...the party organ)

"I am all-powerful! I am a tyrant! I will follow in Hitler's footsteps!"

Zhirnovsky

"On returning to Moscow, Zhirinovsky grandly celebrated his forty-eighth birthday at the Budapest restaurant. The table was set for five hundred people. Bottles of anew brand of vodka called "Zhirinovsky" sported his picture on the label and a map of the Russian empire with the last century's borders, including Poland, Finland, and Alaska. During the presidential campaign, Zhirnovsky had promised the people cheap vodka when he came to power. Now the demand for the vodka named in honor of the most popular Russian politician was guaranteed. It is difficult to imagine a more effective means of political advertising in a country where alcoholism is the national disease and vodka the national drink. People say in Moscow that if the new vodka is put into mass production, Zhirnovsky will be a shoo-in in the next presidential elections."

Vladimir Solovyov & Elena Klepikova

Zhirinovsky

"I will reclaim the forty-ninth U.S. state for Russia...I yearn for the day when the Alaskan territory will be returned to the fold of Russia following the breakup of the United States."

-Zhirinovsky

"I have given the go ahead for the use of the new Elipton weapon by Russian officers in the former Yugoslavia....It makes no marks on its victims, leaving only the corpses. There will not be a single trace of firearms wounds, not one drop of blood, not one damaged building."

Zhirinovsky

"Russia must therefore go south and reach the shores of the Indian Ocean. This is not just my whim. It is Russia's destiny. It is a fate. It is Russia's great exploit. We must do it because we have no choice. There is no other way for us. It is geopolitics. Our development demands it, like a child who has outgrown his clothes and must put on new ones."

 "Let Russia successfully accomplish its last dash to the south. I see Russian soldiers gathering for this last southern campaign. I see Russian commanding officers in the headquarters of Russian divisions and armies, sketching the lines of march of troop formations and the end points of their marches. I see planes at air bases in the southern districts of Russia. I see submarines surfacing off the shores of the Indian Ocean and landing craft approaching the shores, where soldiers of the Russian army are already marching, infantry combat vehicles are advancing, and vast number of tanks are on the move. Russia is at last accomplishing its final military campaign."

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Last Dash to the South

"Zhirnovsky will continue to play his historical role, whether or not he becomes president of Russia. Even now he is the secret inspirer, the gray cardinal, the ideological architect events occurring in Russia. It is already impossible to expel him from the political scene-it is too late. It would be senseless and immoral to remove him physically. The hope that will burst like a soap bubble is only wishful thinking. Whether or not we like it, we must come to terms with Zhirnovsky. He is a major politician of the present who has a future that will, it seems, coincide with the future of his country."

Vladimir Solovyov & Elena Klepikova

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Book: Zhirinovsky...by Vladimir Solovyov & Elena Klepikova