Journalism Quote by Anthony DeCurtis

In America, you drive car. In Soviet Russia, car drive you!

— Yakov Smirnoff

“* *Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for.*Don’t imagine that for years on end you can make yourself the…

— George Orwell

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

— Lennart Meri

What did in the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union.

— Robert Dallek

“The Soviet regime robbed people not only of their ability to live freely but also of the ability to understand fully what had been…

— Masha Gessen

“For the majority of ordinary Russians, especially for those of a certain age who identified themselves as ‘Soviet’, the 1990s were little short of…

— Orlando Figes

“Dig your nails deep enough into the back of a Soviet, and eventually you'll find a Russian.”

— Magnus Flyte

The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand…

— Lincoln Steffens

“I hated life in the Soviet Union. You had to pretend something you didn't feel.”

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

“The Soviet state was, in fact, almost perfectly designed to make people unhappy. It denied its citizens not just hope, but also trust. Every…

— Oliver Bullough

“If political scientists couldn’t predict the downfall of the Soviet Union—perhaps the most important event in the latter half of the twentieth century—then what…

— Nate Silver

“As and old (and clandestine) Soviet joke used to express it, the problem with the past...is that it is always so unpredictable.”

— Francis X. Blouin Jr