Fascism Quote by Leonid Brezhnev

“Both fascism and communism were responses to globalization: to the real and perceived inequalities it created, and the apparent helplessness of the democracies in…

— Timothy Snyder

All the pale horses of the apocalypse have stormed through my life, revolution, starvation, devaluation of currency and terror, epidemics, emigration; I have seen…

— Stefan Zweig

Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national…

— Oswald Mosley

“As in 1917, the drift towards authoritarian government under Putin was enabled by the weakness of the middle classes and public institutions in post-Soviet…

— Orlando Figes

“Both the United States and the Soviet Union had been born in revolution. Both embraced ideologies with global aspirations: what worked at home, their…

— John Lewis Gaddis

The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained.

— Vladimir Putin

This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive…

— Earl Browder

The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.

— Vladimir Putin

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

“So stagnant was life in the Soviet Union then that even a sclerotic socialist system like East Germany’s seemed prosperous by comparison,”

— Steven Lee Myers

“The general economic growth of the quarter of a century that followed World War II not surprisingly created many illusions. In the West, people…

— Samir Amin

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

— Karl Liebknecht