Ispanskaia tetrad'. Sub'ektivnyi vzgliad - Pozner Vladimir Vladimirovich

"If you think about it, Spain and Russia have a wonderful lye in common. Both are the edge of Europe, one is the western region, the other is the eastern one. Both peoples for many centuries were under the control of foreign conquerors: Spaniards - Moors, Russians - Mongols. In the history of each of them formed a role (almost at the same time) two tyrants, whose activities stopped the long movement in the direction of the Renaissance and democracy: in Spain - Philip II, in Russia - Ivan IV. Both countries were torn apart by civil wars that brought murderers and executioners to power: in Spain - Francisco Franco, in Russia - Joseph Stalin. To this day, in both countries, people continue to divide each other into conventional "red" and "white".
Vladimir Posner