Best kept secrets Quote by Frank Zappa

Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in…

— David Hoffman

“I know Mischa, but you know how the politburo runs. If I say one word of this in there, I'll be out of my…

— Markus Wolf

[A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] "Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist?" [He replied] "Well, a politician."…

— Ronald Reagan

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

— David Remnick

There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.

— David Crosby

“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

Mikhail Gorbachev's historic leadership, which transformed Russia and international relations, cannot be fully understood without the diary-memoir of Anatoly Chernyaev, one of his most…

— Stephen F. Cohen

Mr. Gorbachev initiated Glasnost, Perestroika, so he was already, you know, way disenchanted with the rigid Communist ideology, and he was looking to become…

— Deepak Chopra

General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here…

— Ronald Reagan

And Communist Russia was so bad because they followed their people, they snooped on them, they arrested them, they put them in secret prisons,…

— Steve Wozniak

In 1980 I was a red kid and no one could have said anything bad about the Soviet Union. At least this is how…

— Lubos Motl

“When reason, common sense, and decency are assaulted often enough, then personality is crippled, and human intelligence disintegrates or is warped. The barrier between…

— Frank Ellis