Failure Quote by Peter Pomerantsev

I was trying to help Gazprom Media explain why they took over NTV, a television network. If that somehow down the line helped the…

— Michael Caputo

The Soviet Union wasn't so closed - it wasn't North Korea. It was a practical system. People were creative and industrious, so if they…

— Jaak Kilmi

“Nearly every night there were screenings in the private projection rooms in the Kremlin or the various dachas. Khrushchev says that Stalin was particularly…

— Martin Amis

In Northern Estonia, the Soviet authorities didn't have a recipe on how to fight against the popularity of Finnish TV. Audiences didn't want to…

— Jaak Kilmi

“As and old (and clandestine) Soviet joke used to express it, the problem with the past...is that it is always so unpredictable.”

— Francis X. Blouin Jr

An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the White House,…

— Ronald Reagan

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

— Paul Erdos

In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at…

— Yakov Smirnoff

“That's how it always is," Koznyshev interrupted him. "We Russians are always like that. Perhaps it's one of our good national characteristics. I mean…

— Leo Tolstoy

“one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.” The president smiled. “Well, they’ve had enough time to play this game.…

— Tom Clancy

“He who does not regret the breakup of the Soviet Union has no heart. He who wants to revive it in its previous form…

— Michael Rank

The Soviet system of propaganda and censorship existed not so much for the purpose of spreading a particular message as for the purpose of…

— Masha Gessen