1950s Quote by Paul Craig Roberts

What did in the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union.

— Robert Dallek

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

— Fran Lebowitz

The Democrat Party loved the Soviet Union! The Democrat Party in the eighties and the seventies propped up the Soviet Union.

— Rush Limbaugh

“Collectivization, when completed, brought starvation to much of the Soviet peasantry. Millions of people in Soviet Ukraine, Soviet Kazakhstan, and Soviet Russia died horrible…

— Timothy Snyder

“in reality, after the fall of communism in the late 1980s the world learned of some of the worst environmental disasters imaginable—rivers so polluted…

— Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.

— Norman Mailer

The unambigious fact is that U.S. capitalism is a mechanism for looting the many for the benefit of the few.

— Paul Craig Roberts

In 1980 I was a red kid and no one could have said anything bad about the Soviet Union. At least this is how…

— Lubos Motl

“During the Cold War, the Soviet Union never could accomplish that because it was a resource exporter and was in competition with these countries.…

— Gordon Chang

What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

The example of Russia reminds us that keeping up that enormous dead weight of the security apparatus required to enforce the ideological conformity to…

— David Graeber

From our perspective now, there is a not a huge understanding about the totalitarian Communism that Soviet Russia practiced during the 1950s - it…

— Jay Roach