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> [Dentists, doctors, surveyors from Latvia wanted to come to England, do anything to get away from the Soviet regime.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-martin/dentists-doctors-surveyors-from-latvia-wanted-to-come-to-england-do/)

[Guy Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-martin/)

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> [“While freely conceding that the Soviet regime exhibits certain features which the humanitarian may be inclined to deplore, we must, I think,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/while-freely-conceding-that-the-soviet-regime-exhibits-certain/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

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> [“The Soviet regime robbed people not only of their ability to live freely but also of the ability to understand fully what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/the-soviet-regime-robbed-people-not-only-of-their-ability-to-live/)

[Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/)

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> [Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn/nowhere-on-the-planet-nowhere-in-history-was-there-a-regime-more/)

[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn/)

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> [Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-baryshnikov/soviet-regime-in-a-way-deprived-me-from-my-childhood-in-my-homeland/)

[Mikhail Baryshnikov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-baryshnikov/)

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> [It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garry-kasparov/it-didn-t-take-long-to-recognise-the-shortcomings-of-the-soviet/)

[Garry Kasparov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garry-kasparov/)

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> [“If the parliamentary regime, even in the period of "peaceful", stable development, was a rather crude method of discovering the opinion of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-trotsky/if-the-parliamentary-regime-even-in-the-period-of-peaceful-stable/)

[Leon Trotsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-trotsky/)

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