The Russian norm is an extremely barbaric state of mind.

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.

There are wonderful alternatives. The current method (of trapping) is extremely barbaric.

We don't know why he did this. This was barbaric.

Siberia is a state of mind.

The barbarian loves his own pride, and hates, or disbelieves in, the pride of others. I will be a civilized being, I will love the pride of my adversaries, of my servants, and my lover; and my house shall be, in all humility, in the wilderness a civilized place.