Kind Quote by Simon Sebag Montefiore

All previous crimes of the Russian empire had been committed under the cover of a discreet shadow. The deportation of a million Lithuanians, the…

— Milan Kundera

Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in…

— Vladimir Putin

The quality of Moscow's hired killers had slipped since the KGB's glory days.

— Alexander Litvinenko

I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.

— Che Guevara

And Communist Russia was so bad because they followed their people, they snooped on them, they arrested them, they put them in secret prisons,…

— Steve Wozniak

The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.

— Octavian Paler

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

The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

“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

Russia is now very far from being a communist country, but when I walked around Moscow, I kept glimpsing these haunting images. There were…

— Martina Navratilova

[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Morally, there was the extreme disappointment at the failure of the classical socialist ideal. The great ideal of Marxism had failed to materialize. The…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks