Art Quote by Niall Ferguson

In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past.

— Adam Michnik

I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism.

— Tom Stoppard

Don't believe Wikipedia, not everything written there is true. The Soviet Artists Union was not a communist party organization. It was a professional union,…

— Ilya Kabakov

He [Vaclav Havel] did love music. And so much about the Czech revolution was about music.

— Judy Woodruff

The Soviet Union had only one party. You couldn't express yourself freely; you couldn't admit belief in God. And yet this terrible regime understood…

— Andris Nelsons

When I entered the film school at the Prague Academy in the '50s, it was the hardest time in the Communist countries. The ideological…

— Milos Forman

The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact…

— Adam Michnik

After Stalin died, the Soviet Union began inching toward the world again. The ban on jazz was lifted. Ernest Hemingway was published; the Pushkin…

— Keith Gessen

“Soviet Communism was a fanatical and missionary religion. A devout Communist could not be a Christian or a Buddhist, and was expected to spread…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“If the immediate postwar period had been characterized by violent attacks on the existing institutions of civil society, after 1948 the regimes [of Eastern…

— Anne Applebaum