"The genius of the Russian Slavs showed itself ill adapted to modern…

"The genius of the Russian Slavs showed itself ill adapted to modern business and to the management of the complicated economy of the industrial world, which they had often to hand over to foreign and semi-foreign influences; and more than any other Europeans they were at the mercy of their Jews. The Russian, who oscillates between a reckless egotism and a vague universalism, is not comfortable with the organised individualism of western Europe."

-- John Maynard Keynes