Communism Quote by Michèle Bernstein

“I hate vodka. It is the second worst thing to have come out of Russia, after communism - which isn't Russian anyway, Karl Marx…

— Param Vyas

“Vodka was a liquid cultural yardstick, an eighty-proof vehicle of escape from the socialist daily grind.”

— Anonymous

“Russians have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.”

— Haruki Murakami

“enough vodka to kill a Russian army.”

— A.G. Riddle

“There is only good vodka and very good vodka—there is no such thing as bad vodka.”

— Julian Barnes

“What? Read more Russian history? It’s bloody and it’s tragic and best served with a lot of vodka. Trust me.”

— Heather Long

“During the Cold War, widespread alcoholism was always seen in the West as evidence that life under Communism was so dismal that Russians needed…

— Naomi Klein

“A nineteenth-century Russian novel and vodka accompanied each other perfectly.”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Russia," Emilio would say, "is full of frozen, heartless pricks. If you wanna beat 'em, you gotta be able to tough it out in…

— Santino Hassell

“You and the Germans, you have your super- soldiers, your secret weapons... but we Russians, we have nothing but our winter.”

— Vasily Karpov

“It’s like the fates are conspiring to keep me in Moscow. It’s not enough that Russia has winters brutal enough to decimate its enemies’…

— Anna Zaires

“Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society,…

— Herman Melville