Russia At The 1996 Summer Olympics
Russia competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, USA. It was the first time that the nation participated separately from the other former republics of the Soviet Union. Russia had been a member of the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics. 390 competitors, 323 men and 158 women, took part in 212 events in 25 sports.
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“In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Does he lie there
forever, where his rifle waits, giant
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my mind.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)