Breaking Quote by Merab Mamardashvili

The Soviet system is how everything here works. It's very difficult to break the system. The system is big and inflexible, uneffective, and also…

— Vitali Klitschko

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

To all the countries of the former Soviet Union: look at us, everything is possible.

— Volodymyr Zelensky

I just don't see this old idea of the Red peril, itching to take over the world. I think you can explain a lot…

— John Anderson

The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for…

— E. P. Thompson

“When reason, common sense, and decency are assaulted often enough, then personality is crippled, and human intelligence disintegrates or is warped. The barrier between…

— Frank Ellis

“For the majority of ordinary Russians, especially for those of a certain age who identified themselves as ‘Soviet’, the 1990s were little short of…

— Orlando Figes

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

— Vladimir Lenin

“The peoples of the Soviet Union, in many respects, impress me as people who can not yet afford to be honest. When they can…

— Audre Lorde

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for…

— Anonymous

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