Bananas Quote by Dave Barry

What did in the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union.

— Robert Dallek

The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was.

— Noam Chomsky

“Having lived in a mythical country, a place neither here nor there, these intellectuals from Vilna and Gomel helped create another and called it…

— Alan Furst

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing…

— Earl Browder

Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50 million deaths,…

— Boris Johnson

When Dalton Trumbo and his friends joined the Communist Party it was 1943, and Russia was our ally in World War II. This was…

— Jay Roach

I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of…

— Harry S. Truman

I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.

— Che Guevara

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

“Out on the Nevsky, in the deepening dusk, a long double file of cyclists came riding, guns slung on their shoulders. They halted, and…

— John Reed

“In a “secret speech” to the twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev made a sensational revelation of the…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“I remembered Papa talking about Stalin confiscating peasants' land, tools, and animals. He told them what crops they would produce and how much they…

— Ruta Sepetys