Live Freely Quote by Masha Gessen

“Freedom had no place in the Soviet System. Freedom was another word for anarchy, and that wouldn't do at all.”

— Mal Peet

“The Soviet state was, in fact, almost perfectly designed to make people unhappy. It denied its citizens not just hope, but also trust. Every…

— Oliver Bullough

“Soviet leaders had to treat the outside world as hostile because this provided the only excuse “for the dictatorship without which they did not…

— John Lewis Gaddis

“* *Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for.*Don’t imagine that for years on end you can make yourself the…

— George Orwell

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

— Vladislav Surkov

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

“...the Russian church had lost in its first decade of 'freedom' what Soviet believers had managed to hold on to under communisn for most…

— Nik Ripkin

“Despite Soviet 'defeat' in 1991, the ideas associated with Communism remain shockingly reputable throughout what we still know as the Free World.”

— Diana West

“The ability to discuss things was still the most highly valued commodity in the Soviet Union.”

— Masha Gessen

It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

— Garry Kasparov