Communism Quote by Jay Roach

I think that Russia was like a lot of other countries, a lot of empires, in being a tyranny up until the early 20th…

— Masha Gessen

We lived in a totalitarian system for more than 70 years, and our views are still under its influence. Many heads of state in…

— Irakli Okruashvili

“In the end, the “model” that came into existence in the USSR was not socialist but totalitarian. This is a serious matter to be…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for…

— E. P. Thompson

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

The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an…

— John Dos Passos

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

“Russia used to be great, a nation of philosophers, brilliant thinkers, artists, and scientists. Not anymore. It hasn’t been great for a long time,…

— Penny Reid

The Soviet system is how everything here works. It's very difficult to break the system. The system is big and inflexible, uneffective, and also…

— Vitali Klitschko

Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.

— Vladimir Putin

The goals of Russia since 1917 have been to destroy capitalism, discredit democracy, and show that Communist collectivism was the greatest social and political…

— Malcolm Nance