The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history
It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness. [Lat. , Stultum est in luctu capillum sibi evellere, quasi calvito maeror levaretur. ]