Absolutes Quote by Joseph Stalin

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

“Let's put it to a vote. Shall the ballots be open or secret?" "We don't need Soviet-style voting," Charushnikov said, offended. "Let's vote the…

— Ilya Ilf

The Russian people deserve free and fair elections. They deserve to have a democracy.

— Hillary Clinton

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

The Russian people have unilaterally made their choice in direction of democracy in the early '90s. They will not be led astray. Nobody should…

— Vladimir Putin

“The Soviet regime robbed people not only of their ability to live freely but also of the ability to understand fully what had been…

— Masha Gessen

Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those universal democratic…

— Vladimir Putin

Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy. Fourteen years ago, independently, without any pressure from outside, it made that decision in the…

— Vladimir Putin

For them (the peoples of the Soviet Union) We cherish the warmest paternal affection. We are well aware that not a few of them…

— Pope Pius XI

We had a simple choice: Either betray our values or keep our values and leave Russia to try to do something new.

— Pavel Durov

If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face of surrounding…

— Joseph Stalin

Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment.

— Chris Christie