Brezhnev Quote by Jimmy Carter

What did in the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union.

— Robert Dallek

The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was.

— Noam Chomsky

My television teaches me that everything was wonderful in the Soviet Union. According to the programs I watch, the KGB and apparatchiks were angels,…

— Vladimir Sorokin

“Marxism in the Soviet Union had been boiled down to the understanding that people—Soviet citizens—were shaped entirely by their society and the material conditions…

— Masha Gessen

“Soviet Communism was a fanatical and missionary religion. A devout Communist could not be a Christian or a Buddhist, and was expected to spread…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Regarding themselves as irreplaceable, both Lenin and Stalin tried in different ways to destroy their successors - Lenin through a testament that attacked Stalin…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

The Soviet Union began by banishing God. The United States began as a community of people who wanted to worship God as they chose.…

— Richard M. Nixon

“In a “secret speech” to the twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev made a sensational revelation of the…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution.

— Joseph Stalin

The Soviets held to the tradition of colonialism. They raped the country and killed many people. But they also built dams, electrical power plants,…

— Ahmed Rashid

And Communist Russia was so bad because they followed their people, they snooped on them, they arrested them, they put them in secret prisons,…

— Steve Wozniak

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.

— Peter Kropotkin