“[The Europeans] have gone so far as to label us their enemies—the future destroyers of European civilization.” - Dostoyevsky (Diaries, January 1877) The more things change, the more they stay the same. Full quote from the clip: “We adopted European tastes—we even ate all sorts of nasty things, trying not to wince—as if to say, ‘Look at me, what a true Englishman I am; I can’t eat a thing without cayenne pepper!’ Do you think I’m joking? Not at all.” [….] “We could never quite explain to them that we didn’t want to be simply Russians, but rather ‘universal human beings.’ Lately, however, they’ve begun to grasp something. They’ve realized that we are after something—something they find frightening and dangerous. They’ve realized that there are a great many of us—eighty million—and that while we know and understand all European ideas, they know nothing of our Russian ideas, and even if they were to learn of them, they wouldn’t understand them. They’ve realized that we speak all their languages, while they speak only their own—and they’ve begun to suspect and comprehend a great deal more. In the end, they’ve gone so far as to label us their enemies—the future destroyers of European civilization. That is how they have interpreted our passionate goal to become ‘universal human beings’!”