Affected Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Soviet-era nostalgia has strong support among the people. But not among the elite and, in my opinion, not with the president. We are not…

— Vladislav Surkov

People do forget there is still a lot of nostalgia in Russia for the Soviet Union.

— Clarissa Ward

I wanted to show something that Americans don't usually think about when they think about Russia, which is the extreme stratification of Soviet society.

— Masha Gessen

“Scholars generally understand post-Soviet nostalgia as something more than a simple longing for the return of the Soviet past (Boym 2001; Ivanova 1997; Nadkarni…

— Helena Goscilo

I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?

— Julie Burchill

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.

— Newt Gingrich

Whatever the drawbacks and failures I am convinced that in years to come humanity will look back to Soviet achievements as a source of…

— Ronnie Kasrils

In 1980 I was a red kid and no one could have said anything bad about the Soviet Union. At least this is how…

— Lubos Motl

I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and…

— Vladimir Putin

Communism destroyed so many generations. I look at my grandparents and their generation, and it's as if their lives were taken from them. It's…

— Anton Yelchin

History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.

— Henry L. Stimson

The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for…

— E. P. Thompson