Destroy Quote by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like…

— Jimmy Carter

Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology.

— Simon Sebag-Montefiore

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are…

— Merab Mamardashvili

The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was.

— Noam Chomsky

Under Stalin, artists weren't dissidents; all they hoped was to survive and write.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Stalin, of course, never went on trial, but his legacy did. In 1956, three years after his death, he was denounced by Nikita Khrushchev.…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

In the early 1990s, there was a debate among economists over shock therapy versus a gradualism strategy for Russia. The people in Russia who…

— Joseph Stiglitz

“Marxism in the Soviet Union had been boiled down to the understanding that people—Soviet citizens—were shaped entirely by their society and the material conditions…

— Masha Gessen

“Stalin is one of the most extraordinary figures in world history. He began as a small clerk, and he has never stopped being a…

— Adolf Hitler

“But the powerful and respected party right, particularly Stalin, went so far in the direction of moderation as to support a merger of Bolsheviks…

— China Miéville

Can and must! The proclamation of this new conception of [Joseph Stalin] is closed by the same words, "Such are in general the characteristic…

— Leon Trotsky

We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never…

— W. Averell Harriman