Russia (Conv. 1968 - 1974)

Expressions researched:
"russia" |"russia's #" |"russian" |"russian's" |"russians"

1968 Conversations and Morning Walks

Room Conversation -- October 27, 1968, Montreal, With First Devotees Going to London On Evening of Their Departure:

Prabhupāda: So the modern civilization, they are trying to increase the degree of material fever, and they have come to the point, 107 degree-atomic bomb. Now they are going to die. You see? The American atom bomb or the Russian atom bomb will kill the whole material scientists' advancement.

Interview with LA Times Reporter About Moon Trip -- December 26, 1968, Los Angeles:

Prabhupāda: The Russian scientists, the American scientists, they're trying for the last ten years. Still, they have not approached the moon planet.

Interview with LA Times Reporter About Moon Trip -- December 26, 1968, Los Angeles:

Prabhupāda: Just like the Russians advertised that "We are going there in 1965," they advertised to sell land. So these are utopian. You see? Somebody wanted to purchase land in the Russia. And they advertise also that they have plucked their flag, Sea of Moscow. What is this?

Interview with LA Times Reporter About Moon Trip -- December 26, 1968, Los Angeles:

Prabhupāda: Just the Russians advertised that "We're going to distribute land."

Interview with LA Times Reporter About Moon Trip -- December 26, 1968, Los Angeles:

Prabhupāda: As the Russian said that in 1965 we are going to...

1969 Conversations and Morning Walks

Conversation Including Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.1-34 Recitation & Explanation -- April 1, 1969, San Francisco:

Prabhupāda: Therefore modern politicians, they say, "Why should you..." Just like the Russians. They say, "Why should you go to church for begging, 'Give us our daily...' oh, you come to us. We shall give you sufficient bread."

1970 Conversations and Morning Walks

Room Conversation -- December 13, 1970, Indore:

Prabhupāda: You see in your country, the Russia? Russian beauty-big belly, fat.

1971 Conversations and Morning Walks

Conversation with Prof. Kotovsky -- June 22, 1971, Moscow:

Prabhupāda: Sun is creation of the Supreme. So sunshine is here in America, in Russia, in India—everywhere.

Darsana -- June 28, 1971, San Francisco:

Prabhupāda: Is that happiness? No food, no clothing. Similarly, this Russian country, they are very much proud of advancement, but no food sufficient and no freedom. No food and no freedom, that's all. This is the sum and substance.

Room Conversation -- July 18, 1971, Detroit:

Prabhupāda: Yes, Russia is the same people. They are anxious to receive this movement. Very much anxious.

Room Conversation -- July 18, 1971, Detroit:

Prabhupāda: So one professor, a Dr. Kotovsky, he told me that Indian Rāmāyaṇa, Tulsi dasa's Rāmāyaṇa—that's not very good philosophy—still, it was translated into Russian language, and within a week, all the books are sold. Just see. So they are hankering after this cultural book. Approximately... We have no means now; otherwise there is immense, good field for Kṛṣṇa consciousness in Russia.

Room Conversation -- July 18, 1971, Detroit:

Prabhupāda: We follow the same process, anywhere. It doesn't matter whether it is America, Russia, or Europe. It doesn't matter.

Room Conversation -- August 14, 1971, London:

Prabhupāda: So actually, those who are after God, they are coming. It doesn't matter whether he is in America, in Russia, in Africa, or Canada. It doesn't matter. They are coming.

Interview with Reporters -- November 10, 1971, New Delhi:

Prabhupāda: Then one Russian professor invited me already.

Room Conversation -- December 11, 1971, New Delhi:

Prabhupāda: The same example: just like so-called scientists, Russian and American, for so many years they're trying to go to the moon planet, nearest planet. But here is no shelter.

1972 Conversations and Morning Walks

Room Conversation Including Discussion on SB 4.13.48 to SB 4.14.11 -- January 18, 1972, Jaipur:

Prabhupāda: Just like in Russia we are afraid or China, yes.

Room Conversation Including Discussion on SB 4.13.48 to SB 4.14.11 -- January 18, 1972, Jaipur:

Prabhupāda: Our Indira Gandhi is cooperating with the Russians, and as soon as she is under the control of the Russians, gradually Communism will be introduced. People are afraid of this attempt by Indira Gandhi.

Room Conversation -- April 1, 1972, Sydney:

Prabhupāda: The Americans will go to the moon planet to defend his country from the Russians. Just see.

Room Conversation -- April 18, 1972, Hong Kong:

Prabhupāda: Similarly I am asking one girl. She is a French girl, Mandākinī. So I am asking her to go to Russia and marry one boy. She has never seen.

Conversation with Dai Nippon -- April 22, 1972, Tokyo:

Prabhupāda: I talked with one Mr. Kotovsky, a Russian professor in Moscow. I was in Moscow. He said, "Swamiji, there is no life after death." Just see.

Room Conversation -- June 29, 1972, San Diego:

Prabhupāda: Well, President Nixon means this country. Why he went to China? Why he went to Russia? He's also afraid.

Room Conversation -- July 4, 1972, New York:

Prabhupāda: Now, the Russian scholar, he will, theologian, he can describe about God, what is the nature of God.

Interview -- July 20, 1972, Paris:

Prabhupāda: Just like the communists in Russia or China, they are thinking of their country main only. They are not thinking of others.

Room Conversation with Kenneth Keating, U.S. Ambassador to India -- October 14, 1972, New Delhi:

Prabhupāda: In Russia also there is another type of confusion.

Room Conversation with Kenneth Keating, U.S. Ambassador to India -- October 14, 1972, New Delhi:

Prabhupāda: Russia... Last time when I went to Europe I visited Russia. I was invited by one Professor Kotovsky. Perhaps you know him.

Room Conversation with Kenneth Keating, U.S. Ambassador to India -- October 14, 1972, New Delhi:

Prabhupāda: Russia has got very good respect for Indian culture.

Room Conversation -- October 25, 1972, Vrndavana:

Prabhupāda: Yes, Russians. Russian young boys are as good as Americans. By artificial means they have been checked. The Russian government is not good at all. Suppression. Simply suppression.

Room Conversation -- October 25, 1972, Vrndavana:

Prabhupāda: "You go to Russia and marry that boy."

Room Conversation -- October 25, 1972, Vrndavana:

Prabhupāda: From Russia?

1973 Conversations and Morning Walks

Room Conversation with Indonesian Scholar -- February 27, 1973, Jakarta:

Prabhupāda: We have got Russia and we are negotiating with China also.

Morning Walk -- April 26, 1973, Los Angeles:

Prabhupāda: They're asses. And the whole world is suffering by thinking like that. "I am American, I am Indian, I am Russian, I am this, I am that." That's all.

Morning Walk -- April 29, 1973, Los Angeles:

Prabhupāda: And spiritual happiness is real happiness. So in Russia, there is neither material nor spiritual. So they are unhappy in all respects.

Conversation with Sridhara Maharaja -- June 27, 1973, Navadvipa:

Prabhupāda: The Russian professor...

Room Conversation with Sir Alistair Hardy -- July 21, 1973, London:

Prabhupāda: The Russians read. I have heard that in your Oxford University there is study of Rabindranath's books? They study?

Room Conversation with French Journalist and UNESCO Worker -- August 10, 1973, Paris:

Prabhupāda: So it is the most refined socialism. Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement... Our socialism means centering around Kṛṣṇa. Just like Russian socialism is around the ideas of Marx or Lenin.

Room Conversation with French Journalist and UNESCO Worker -- August 10, 1973, Paris:

Prabhupāda: We have divided already four classes of men. Even in Russia... Even in Russia, I have seen, they have created two classes, the worker class, the manager class. I have seen it. Yes.

Room Conversation with French Journalist and UNESCO Worker -- August 10, 1973, Paris:

Prabhupāda: Therefore they are all cheaters. And they are combining and trying to cheat other that "How much I can cheat you." "I am American. How much I can cheat you, Russian." Russian thinking, "Yes, I am also cheater. How much I can cheat you."

Room Conversation with Rosicrucians -- August 13, 1973, Paris:

Prabhupāda: That is Russians.

Room Conversation with Dr. Christian Hauser, Psychiatrist -- September 10, 1973, Stockholm:

Prabhupāda: And the demons will never accept God. Just like in Russia. All set of rascals. They do not believe in God.

Room Conversation with Dr. Christian Hauser, Psychiatrist -- September 10, 1973, Stockholm:

Prabhupāda: I say the leaders. Not only in Russia. Everywhere. The leaders, the rascal leaders spoiling the whole world situation. In India also.

Interviews with Macmillan and various English Reporters -- September 12, 1973, London:

Prabhupāda: Even big, big professors. Prof. Kotofsky, in Russia, he told me, "Swamiji, after this body's finished, everything is finished." That is not the fact.

Room Conversation -- September 18, 1973, Bombay:

Prabhupāda: So we have no experience below zero degrees. But in Europe, America, there is places. In Russia also, below fifty degrees. But they do not stop their business.

Conversation at Airport -- October 26, 1973, Bombay:

Prabhupāda: The Bhagavad-gītā, the culture of India, they have forsaken. They are now taking culture from Russia. Yes. This is the advancement of education. They are taking instruction from Lenin than from Kṛṣṇa.

Room Conversation with Latin Professor -- December 9, 1973, Los Angeles:

Prabhupāda: In the higher planetary system, the time is different. That was proved when the Russian aeronautics were on the sky. In one hour twenty-five minutes, he went round the earth, twice or thrice, like that. So time is different.

Morning Walk -- December 13, 1973, Los Angeles:

Prabhupāda: Now, in Russia the authority was the Czar. Now, after this Bolshevik revolution, Lenin became authority.

Morning Walk -- December 15, 1973, Los Angeles:

Prabhupāda: Why you fought for Russian Revolution?

Morning Walk -- December 30, 1973, Los Angeles:

Prabhupāda: In the European history, without revolution, no order changes. Even the Russian Revolution was there. French revolution was there. In England, Cromwell? Cromwell? Cromwell Revolution?

1974 Conversations and Morning Walks

Morning Walk -- January 10, 1974, Los Angeles:

Prabhupāda: Their anchor is to remain here and enjoy. That is their main disease. They do not... Just like the Russian astronaut has gone so high, he was seeing, "Where is Moscow?" The anchor is there in the Moscow. Therefore he has to come down.

Morning Walk -- January 15, 1974, Hawaii:

Prabhupāda: Russia is useless.

Morning Walk -- January 15, 1974, Hawaii:

Prabhupāda: Yes, it is for the Russians. But there are so many other islands like this.

Morning Walk -- March 7, 1974, Mayapura:

Prabhupāda: That is going on. That change, revolution, is going on. Just like the Russian people, they changed the Czarist government into communist government, revolution, but still, they're unhappy.

Morning Walk -- March 27, 1974, Bombay:

Prabhupāda: You are criticizing Russians. Why do you...?

Morning Walk -- March 27, 1974, Bombay:

Prabhupāda: The astronautics... That Russian... Even Nehru went to receive. Just see, such a rascal minister we have.

Press Conference -- April 18, 1974, Hyderabad:

Prabhupāda: Russian?

Press Conference -- April 18, 1974, Hyderabad:

Prabhupāda: I do not know Russian society, but I can say I have been in Moscow. The people are not happy. That I can say.

Morning Walk -- May 9, 1974, Bombay:

Prabhupāda: Even the Russians appreciated.

Room Conversation with Catholic Cardinal and Secretary to the Pope -- May 24, 1974, Rome:

Prabhupāda: It is not that the whole Russia is atheist. It is not that.

Room Conversation with Catholic Cardinal and Secretary to the Pope -- May 24, 1974, Rome:

Prabhupāda: Either in Russia or any place, any human being, he has got dormant love for God. It has to be awakened by processes.

Morning Walk -- May 29, 1974, Rome:

Prabhupāda: So where is equal rights? Even in Russia, there is managerial class and laborer class. Where are equal rights? Why there are managers?

Morning Walk -- May 29, 1974, Rome:

Prabhupāda: "Starving people." I have seen. They cannot give starving people. Just like we went to Russia. So we wanted rice. There is no rice. There was no good rice. We wanted fruit. There was no fruit.

Morning Walk -- May 29, 1974, Rome:

Prabhupāda: You cannot satisfy everyone. That is not possible. In Russia, there are so many unsatisfied people, so many millions.

Morning Walk -- May 29, 1974, Rome:

Prabhupāda: There are some philosopher. He has written book—he has got Nobel Prize—that "This Russian government, simply terrorism."

Morning Walk -- June 2, 1974, Geneva:

Prabhupāda: In Russia I have seen. The mass people, they are very nice.

Room Conversation -- June 11, 1974, Paris:

Prabhupāda: Nature will take revenge. Wait for that. As soon as the time is ripe, the nature will gather all these rascals, and club, slaughter them. Finished. They will fight amongst themselves, Protestant and Catholic, Russian and France, and France and Germany. This is going on.

Room Conversation with Monsieur Mesman, Chief of Law House of Paris -- June 11, 1974, Paris:

Prabhupāda: Therefore the whole world is in chaotic condition. In your country also, it is famous for so many revolutions. And whole Europe is..., Russia and other countries, because there is no brain.

Morning Walk -- June 17, 1974, Germany:

Prabhupāda: They are manufacturing atom bomb. Russia is hiding himself.

Room Conversations -- September 11, 1974, Vrndavana:

Prabhupāda: Actually, comparing with America, the people are more happy in America, not in Russia. It's a fact. I have seen it. They are terrorized, no freedom.