Country Quote by Leon Trotsky

Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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 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

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

In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of…

— Leon Trotsky

Russia made a decisive contribution to the victory over Nazism. That's clear to every honest observer. So, therefore, in a certain manner, it is…

— Dmitry Medvedev

Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and…

— Joseph Stalin

Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.

— Robert Heilbroner

Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in…

— Vladimir Putin

If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They have what…

— Erich Fromm

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

— Noam Chomsky

Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.

— Joseph Stalin