Programming Quote by George Bernard Shaw

[He] saw communism for the sham that it was--a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress…

— Vince Flynn

“Every time this happened, some arbitrarily chosen scapegoats were punished for overzealousness in carrying out the old policy. These were circumstances that encouraged fatalism…

— Sheila Fitzpatrick

“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 the immediate postwar period had been characterized by violent attacks on the existing institutions of civil society, after 1948 the regimes [of Eastern…

— Anne Applebaum

“It was astonishing that the pseudo wreckers, who knew perfectly well that they weren't wreckers, believed that military men and priests were being shaken…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“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

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

— Jack Levine

“So you were dissidents? You believed in finishing the USSR?''No. It's not like that. You just speak several languages at the same time, all…

— Peter Pomerantsev

“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

“Morally, there was the extreme disappointment at the failure of the classical socialist ideal. The great ideal of Marxism had failed to materialize. The…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“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

“A soldier: "I know where heaven is and it's Lithuania ... The women are beautiful, pagan, with a practical view towards sex. Who says…

— Robert D. Kaplan