Communist Quote by Martina Navratilova

Communism destroyed so many generations. I look at my grandparents and their generation, and it's as if their lives were taken from them. It's…

— Anton Yelchin

I began to despise Lenin, even when I was in the first grade, not so much because of his political philosophy or practice... but…

— Joseph Brodsky

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

I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more…

— Petra Nemcova

Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why…

— Anton Yelchin

When I returned to Russia in 1994, the Western world and its states were practically being worshipped. Admittedly, this was caused not so much…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In Georgia, people had already understood that communism couldn't survive, and I came to the institute in Moscow, and people still believed in it.…

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

“Everything is PR” has become the favorite phrase of the new Russia; my Moscow peers are filled with a sense that they are both…

— Peter Pomerantsev

The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.

— Octavian Paler

I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.

— Vagit Alekperov

My time in Moscowmade a man of memade me an artistthere was a reality and a brutality of life that I think was very…

— Jon Bernthal

In 1980 I was a red kid and no one could have said anything bad about the Soviet Union. At least this is how…

— Lubos Motl