Jaak Kilmi famous quotes

The Soviet Union wasn't so closed - it wasn't North Korea. It was a practical system. People were creative and industrious, so if they wanted to see Western TV programs, they would invent a way to do so. It's strange in a way. There was an official truth, and there was daily life.
-- Jaak Kilmi

#Korea #People #Creative

It was life under the Soviet system - we were struggling with every big problem. Publicly, my parents had to queue up to buy food, but were able to live secret lives in their private rooms. With the TV set in the living room, we were able to see Western pop culture -a different reality from what we were living. For me, it was like two different universes existed at the same time, and we got used to being in these parallel universes.
-- Jaak Kilmi

#Struggle #Reality #Different Universes

In Northern Estonia, the Soviet authorities didn't have a recipe on how to fight against the popularity of Finnish TV. Audiences didn't want to watch hardcore Soviet propaganda.
-- Jaak Kilmi

#Fighting #Watches #Estonia

In the mid-1980s, however, the Estonian TV programmers came up with a clever idea: they asked Moscow for millions of rubles to make propaganda in Estonia to fight the Finnish programs' popularity. They got millions from the government, but what they made was not propaganda at all! They simply made good, entertaining programs - no one in Estonia recognized them as propaganda, only Russia thought it was, so they got away with it. Of course, Russia provided their own propaganda programs, but Estonians knew to avoid them.
-- Jaak Kilmi

#Clever #Fighting #Ideas

My childhood in the Soviet Union was not terrible, it was very joyful.
-- Jaak Kilmi

#Childhood #Unions #Joyful

Life under the Soviet system was often funny, absurd really, especially for children.
-- Jaak Kilmi

#Children #Absurd #Soviet

Working under the Soviet system made you very paranoid - people were afraid of everything - and this paranoia is still in people's minds.
-- Jaak Kilmi

#People #Mind #Paranoia

Please clean your plate dear, the Lord above can see ya. Don't you know people are starving in Korea.

The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.

Fear is a killer, when it comes to the creative process.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.