Capitalism Quote by Albert Kuvezin

I was growing up in a communist time, especially, and the other music, the western music, was banned, so on radio half of the…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I'm not a communist, just a media theorist.

— Douglas Rushkoff

Don't believe Wikipedia, not everything written there is true. The Soviet Artists Union was not a communist party organization. It was a professional union,…

— Ilya Kabakov

“After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism”

— Niall Ferguson

We learned Russian music, and of course Western European classical music, but nothing from our own Tuvan culture. I think that was the biggest…

— Albert Kuvezin

The communists saw what we did in the arts as the only product of socialism that was known in the West, so they tolerated…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

The Soviet Union had only one party. You couldn't express yourself freely; you couldn't admit belief in God. And yet this terrible regime understood…

— Andris Nelsons

It's important to remember that, in the 1930s, a lot of people in the West looked at communism as a pretty good idea. That…

— Chrystia Freeland

Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back…

— Compay Segundo

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

In Germany there's something about rock music much more political than it really is - like everything you were doing was an indictment of…

— John Flansburgh

In Georgia, people had already understood that communism couldn't survive, and I came to the institute in Moscow, and people still believed in it.…

— Bidzina Ivanishvili