Ifs Quote by Graham Greene

I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style government.

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and…

— Helen Dunmore

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I am truly happy that I am able to travel from time to time to the USSR the country I love above all. I…

— Paul Robeson

I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.

— Winston Churchill

To all the countries of the former Soviet Union: look at us, everything is possible.

— Volodymyr Zelensky

My childhood in the Soviet Union was not terrible, it was very joyful.

— Jaak Kilmi

I didn't believe that the Soviet Union would ever break down.

— Olga Tokarczuk

In the 1960s, I would have considered China with its CPC an ideologically more dynamic country than the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union…

— Henry A. Kissinger

If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face of surrounding…

— Joseph Stalin

The thing is, I grew up in L.A., so I had this unique opportunity to live in both communist Russia and see that life,…

— Dasha Zhukova