Money Quote by Anna Funder

“Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world”

— Henry Kissinger

“Communism? Most people have no idea what it is. I do not exaggerate. Look around this restaurant, ask any of these fine citizens. 'Excuse…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza with roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shared an…

— Daniel Suarez

“No matter how educated you are, no matter how irrational it seems, you will follow a glimmer of hope. The National Socialist German Workers…

— Jodi Picoult

“If there's one thing I hate the Communists for, Your Excellency,' Foxa once said to Franco, 'it's for obliging me to join the Falange.”

— Javier Cercas

“Germans longed to be near shit, but not in it. This, as it turns out, is an excellent description of their role in the…

— Michael Lewis

“Communism is an interesting thing to do, nothing I ever want to be.”

— Cory Doctorow

“I mean, this was the second half of the twentieth century, for pity’s sake, and they still saw communism as the road to utopia.”

— Masaji Ishikawa

“The Germans puzzled me. What a waste. Was such a destitute, cruel world worth ruling?”

— Jerzy Kosiński

“communism was in a rush, it had no time for bourgeois things like the past or the environment.”

— Kapka Kassabova

“I beg you, no matter what happens, no matter where you go in life or how many millions you make, no matter anything, I…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“The former East Germany hardly had a monopoly on complicity. Life’s every moment caught one out in one form or another.”

— Paul Russell