Desire Quote by Joseph Stalin

Of course, Soviet people would like to see the face of surrounding states changed, but that is the business of the surrounding states.

— J. Stalin

I believe that renunciation of the Soviet Union was an expression of the free will of the Russian people.

— Vladislav Surkov

There are also many instances where people hostile to the Soviet state are attempting by means of deceit and provocation to poison the minds…

— Filipp Golikov

We must not fall into the trap of projecting our own morality onto the Soviet leaders. They do not share our aspirations, they are…

— Margaret Thatcher

I fail to see what dangers surrounding states can see in the ideas of the Soviet people if these states are really firmly seated…

— Joseph Stalin

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are…

— Merab Mamardashvili

I just don't see this old idea of the Red peril, itching to take over the world. I think you can explain a lot…

— John Anderson

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

— Vladimir Lenin

I have argued that the Soviet story is one of the interaction of speculative excess or utopian aspirations with refractory reality.

— Paul Craig Roberts

The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.

— Leon Trotsky

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

— Ronald Reagan