Growth Quote by Harrison Salisbury

“Collectivization, when completed, brought starvation to much of the Soviet peasantry. Millions of people in Soviet Ukraine, Soviet Kazakhstan, and Soviet Russia died horrible…

— Timothy Snyder

Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the…

— Aldrich Ames

In the late 1980s, Soviets were allowed to keep the wealth they created by raising vegetables on their garden plots. Although these plots composed…

— Mary Ruwart

The Soviet system of propaganda and censorship existed not so much for the purpose of spreading a particular message as for the purpose of…

— Masha Gessen

I wanted to show something that Americans don't usually think about when they think about Russia, which is the extreme stratification of Soviet society.

— Masha Gessen

“The ability to discuss things was still the most highly valued commodity in the Soviet Union.”

— Masha Gessen

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise…

— Jello Biafra

When you read Western press, you probably get a feeling that all Russian press is censored, there's no freedom at all, we can't say…

— Margarita Simonyan

Here we have 40 million Russian citizens involved in the sphere of agriculture one way or another. This is very important.

— Vladimir Putin

“We is still banned in the USSR.”

— Gerard K. O'Neill

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

— Anatoly Chubais

“In this respect the differences between the USA and the USSR are those of evangelical dinosaurs competing for domination on one small planet: the…

— Edward Abbey