Quote by Fareed Zakaria

“Russia used to be great, a nation of philosophers, brilliant thinkers, artists, and scientists. Not anymore. It hasn’t been great for a long time,…

— Penny Reid

“Granted, many of them replied, that socialism may not result in riches for all but rather in a smaller production of wealth; nevertheless the…

— Ludwig von Mises

“I think that in America there are certain kinds of problems and in Russia there are certain kinds of problems, but basically, when you…

— Audre Lorde

Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.

— Anton Chekhov

Russia's a small country. It's really poor. It has nothing other than oil and weapons sales.

— Malcolm Nance

“In Russia it is always the future that is thought of. It is the crops next year, it is the comfort that will come…

— John Steinbeck

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not…

— Fareed Zakaria

The Russians have succeeded in one thing: they have sold the world the idea that they represent socialism and the ideas of Marx,and we…

— Erich Fromm

“As the old Russian joke goes, capitalism was the exploitation of man by man, whereas communism was the reverse.”

— J.M.R. Higgs

“You couldn’t have established a communist regime in sixteenth-century Russia, because communism necessitates the concentration of information and resources in one hub.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“everyone is a russian communist”

— h

“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