Alive Quote by Ruta Sepetys

“Now we will live!” This is what the hungry little boy liked to say, as he toddled along the quiet roadside, or through the…

— Timothy Snyder

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

— Kevin J. Anderson

“Another general favorite in our circle was Sergei Kravchinsky, who became so well know, both in England and in the United States, under the…

— Peter Kropotkin

When I was 5-years-old, I knew who Khrushchev was.

— Bill Maher

In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

“Doctors in 1945 would report that one of Berlin's children's favorite games was 'rape.' When they saw a man in uniform--even a Salvation Army…

— Andrei Cherny

“In fact, among the people I met, the term soviet served essentially as a synonym for 'fucked up'. I'd been in the country about…

— Anthony DeCurtis

“In a “secret speech” to the twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev made a sensational revelation of the…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

The Nazi murder squads just wouldn't waste a bullet on a child. I just couldn't process that. I couldn't handle it.

— Natasha Kaplinsky

“One victim, Harrison F. Finley, was a World War II veteran and the father of two young children. He was shot to death in…

— James Forman Jr

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify…

— Tom Clancy

“Khrushchev murders people without regard to race, color, or creed, and therefore whatever he is guilty of, he is not guilty of discrimination?”

— William F. Buckley Jr