Absurd Quote by Jaak Kilmi

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

— Jaak Kilmi

Sometimes I do readings and people can’t stop laughing, but I’m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor,…

— Alina Bronsky

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

— Andrei Platonov

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

— Ian Frazier

I remember starting to read about the Soviet Union when I was eight years old; I think I was reading my father's 'New York…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

I've seen my kids' work at school, and I think they're better than when I was young, 'cause I was brainwashed into anti-Communism. This…

— Oliver Stone

During the entire communist era, communist ideology was imposed on children. That was Bolshevism.

— Andrzej Duda

My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in…

— Maria Sharapova

I remember my time growing up. It was a little bit difficult because the Soviet Union was broken.

— Gennady Golovkin

Communism destroyed so many generations. I look at my grandparents and their generation, and it's as if their lives were taken from them. It's…

— Anton Yelchin

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand…

— Lincoln Steffens