Country Quote by Alex North

I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style government.

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest…

— Paul Robeson

I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me…

— Nas

My dad has been fond of music since childhood. He used to play and sing in his college band in Russia.

— Jonita Gandhi

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was even more country in my college-band days.

— Jon Pardi

My family fled the Soviet Union when I was three and a half years old. Upon arriving in New York City in 1979, my…

— Alexander Vindman

Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of…

— Marc Almond

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

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

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

I performed six concerts all over the U.S.S.R. during the time of Gorbachev. The entire audience was Russian. There were no Indians. Period. The…

— Asha Bhosle