Voltaire foresaw Putin by 250 years

“. . . it is not [the soldiers] that should be punished, it is those sedentary barbarians who from the depths of their offices order, while they are digesting their last meal, the massacre of a million men, and who subsequently give solemn thanks to God.” Francois Voltaire, Micromegas (1752)

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