Eastern europe Quote by Roger Scruton

“The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt…

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

“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

“The Communist Party’s explicit aim was to destroy the family as an institution: The framework of the individual family, which has existed for thousands…

— Jasper Becker

More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this…

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“The immediate aim of the Communist is the same as that of all the other proletarian parties: formation of the proletariat into a class,…

— Friedrich Engels

“I believe profoundly that in the struggle against Communists and their organizations [...] we cannot and should not resort to the methods and forms…

— Victor Kravchenko

“They all agreed that under communism they had been just as poor, but at least there was food and security, whereas independence had brought…

— Isabel Allende

“So the Communist Party has shown the world that only force will be able to move it. The people are supposed to be intimidated…

— Gordon G. Chang

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”

— Karl Marx

“Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Like many Eastern European gangsters, he had been an official in the state security apparatus until the Communist regime collapsed.”

— Massimo Carlotto

“In communism, the men who establish the commune plan its economy.”

— Rose Wilder Lane