Enemies Quote by Norman Davies

The Russian parliament has condemned the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

— Vladimir Putin

“Stalin scribbled on an intelligence report predicting that Hitler would attack the Soviet Union in June 1941: 'You can send your "source" to his…

— Ion Mihai Pacepa

“Hitler had done quite enough in his career to prove how utterly untrustworthy he was long before the Nazi–Soviet Pact was signed in August…

— Andrew Roberts

When Dalton Trumbo and his friends joined the Communist Party it was 1943, and Russia was our ally in World War II. This was…

— Jay Roach

“In the November 1940 week of nightmares, when mighty German planes bombed London, British bombers retaliated by attacking Berlin, where the Soviet foreign minister,…

— William Stevenson

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

“By the time Stalin died on 5 March 1953, the Soviet Union boasted the largest and best-funded scientific establishment in history. It was at…

— Simon Ings

“All Nazi champions insist again and again that Marxism and Bolshevism are the quintessence of the Jewish mind, and that it is the great…

— Ludwig von Mises

To make a Frankenstein monster of a complex character like Stalin would have been too simplistic. I wanted to show who he was and,…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Sixty years ago this week Hitler invaded Poland. This led to the creation of The History Channel.

— Jay Leno

In the fall of 1963, in Leningrad, in what was then the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the young poet Dmitry Bobyshev stole the…

— Keith Gessen

The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

— Oliver Tambo