Investigation is a subtle process, requiring patience and fine analytical ability, as well as a skill in cultivating one's sources. When torture is condoned, these rare talented people leave the service, having been outstripped by less gifted colleagues with their… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
Usually, the leaders appear in the moment of the highest stress, when it is time, speaking symbolically, to go to the barricades. Then people,… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
A single economy makes the constant adjustments necessary to facilitate trade impossible. — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
If you go through all the structures and features of this emerging European monster you will notice that it more and more resembles the… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
The experience of opposing mass movements was acquired by the KGB during perestroika. It was then that the politicians decided to develop and nourish… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
This dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman. And the moment it captures people's minds, the result is mountains of corpses… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
This power, this authority, Soviet power: they killed everybody who could make any resistance, who could explain his own way of thinking and who… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
The dream of socialists, the Maximum Programme, has always been to eliminate the private property, the family and the nation state. With the private… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!' — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it. — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
Socialism is the gradual and less violent form of communism, and socialist is the project of the European Union, which was born in Maastricht… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
The real leaders cannot appear in the peaceful time; nor can the serious opposition emerge from within the peaceful atmosphere. Without an open confrontation,… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
