America Quote by Dasha Zhukova

I fled communism as a child. That's an experience that can shape you forever.

— Ana Navarro

When I was young, I always wanted to go to Russia.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

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 parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in…

— Maria Sharapova

I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more…

— Petra Nemcova

Forty-two years ago, I came to America from communist Cuba so I might have a better way of life, a freer way of life…

— Mel Martinez

I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.

— Vagit Alekperov

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

I do a very good impersonation of an American - I went to high school here - but I've spent most of my life…

— Masha Gessen

I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that…

— Natalia Vodianova

I lived in a kind of dream of communism.

— Bernardo Bertolucci

“About immigrants from Russia: Soviet consciousness overlapped with the new American spirits has formed a specific and divisive culture. This culture is full of…

— Leo Pevsner