Investing Quote by Steven Lee Myers

“enough vodka to kill a Russian army.”

— A.G. Riddle

“One might say that, until now, the social, cultural, and political framework for knowledge of the Gulag has not been in place. I first…

— Anne Applebaum

“They stopped briefly at an inn near the town of Altaussee, a tidy village tucked in the woods near a pristine alpine lake. Outside,…

— Robert M. Edsel

“You and the Germans, you have your super- soldiers, your secret weapons... but we Russians, we have nothing but our winter.”

— Vasily Karpov

“Vodka goes well with a wintery perspective. Nothing else provokes such presentiments of falling snow except, for some, the communist seizure of the state.”

— Michèle Bernstein

“The company tied white and yellow and red ribbons to the prostitutes to indicate which ones were available to which men. After each sexual…

— Michael Lewis

“During the Cold War, widespread alcoholism was always seen in the West as evidence that life under Communism was so dismal that Russians needed…

— Naomi Klein

“Vodka was a liquid cultural yardstick, an eighty-proof vehicle of escape from the socialist daily grind.”

— Anonymous

“In the former Soviet republics, there are three staples of life: vodka, chocolate, and corruption. I know someone who once survived in Uzbekistan for…

— Eric Weiner

Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country in the…

— Gary Shteyngart

“The German leaders, said Winston Churchill, turned upon Russia the most grisly of all weapons. They transported Lenin in a sealed truck like a…

— Robert K. Massie

I just don't see this old idea of the Red peril, itching to take over the world. I think you can explain a lot…

— John Anderson