Astolphe de Custine (1790 – 1857), French writer:
„Extensive as this empire may be, it is nothing more than a prison, the key of which is kept by the emperor“ (1839).
My friend from Russia:
„This is no longer just a dictatorship with us. It was a dictatorship until February 24. It is now a terror – political, economic, financial, psychological, ethnic, religious and lately moral. There is nothing worse than a dictatorship combined with terror“ (2023).