Quotes / Roman von Ungern-Sternberg

In Asia there will be a great State from the Pacific and Indian Oceans to the shore of the Volga. The wise religion of Buddha shall run to the north and the west. It will be the victory of the spirit. A conqueror and leader will appear stronger and more stalwart than Jenghiz Khan and Ugadai. He will be more clever and more merciful than Sultan Baber and he will keep power in his hands until the happy day when, from his subterranean capital, shall emerge the King of the World.

— Baron Ungern von Sternberg, as quoted in Beasts, Men and Gods by Ferdynand Ossendowski (1921)

God, what a supervillain mentality. It's beautiful.

— from a post by Trolim, on AlternateHistory.com forum reacting on the about quote.

"He was not an officer in the ordinary sense: he knew nothing of system, turned up his nose at discipline, and was ignorant of the rudiments of decency and decorum. He was not an officer, but a hero out of one of Mayne Reid's novels."

— General Pyotr Wrangel, in his memoir Always with Honor.