The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to…

You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was…

— Milos Forman

You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries; democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded.

— Indira Gandhi

I've lived a lot in communist countries and they're intensely interested in money. I think they are more interested in money than capitalists are.…

— Truman Capote

“confronted with sudden disaster we all focus on how unremarkable the circumstances were in which the unthinkable occurred, the clear blue sky from which…

— Joan Didion

“It was in fact the ordinary nature of everything preceding the event that prevented me from truly believing it had happened, absorbing it, incorporating…

— Joan Didion

“It was in fact the ordinary nature of everything preceding the event that prevented me from truly believing it had happened, absorbing it, incorporating…

— joan didion

“European who served for many years as a diplomat in Pyongyang, with postings there off and on from the 1970s into the 1990s, likened…

— Bradley K. Martin

Salvation by society failed the most where it promised the most, in the communist countries. But it also failed in the West. Practically no…

— Peter Drucker

You know the critical thing with the Communist countries is Communism, which by definition consists of control by the government.

— Margaret Thatcher

After visits to several Communist countries (USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, East Germany, Vietnam, China, Cuba), I feel strongly that most "revolutionary" types around the…

— Pete Seeger

“The reason why people in communist countries have less "stuff," is that these economic systems to not work very well, not because their inhabitants…

— Thomas Hilmersen

In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.

— Kate Braverman

When I entered the film school at the Prague Academy in the '50s, it was the hardest time in the Communist countries. The ideological…

— Milos Forman

Has the pope questioned the faith of any communist leaders? He spends a lot of time in communist countries.

— Rush Limbaugh

My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've always wanted…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie