Chimera Quote by Vasily Grossman

This power, this authority, Soviet power: they killed everybody who could make any resistance, who could explain his own way of thinking and who…

— Vladimir Bukovsky

“The Soviet regime robbed people not only of their ability to live freely but also of the ability to understand fully what had been…

— Masha Gessen

“I was involuntarily struck by the aptitude which the Russian displays for accommodating himself to the customs of the people in whose midst he…

— Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov

We still have many shortcomings and failures to fulfill the Party's demands, especially as regards the liquidation in some of our people of survivals…

— Filipp Golikov

Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment.

— Chris Christie

If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face of surrounding…

— Joseph Stalin

[The Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the…

— Ronald Reagan

The clash between the aspirations of the people for a better life and the insistence of their rulers on building a powerful state, regardless…

— Harrison Salisbury

“The Soviet state was, in fact, almost perfectly designed to make people unhappy. It denied its citizens not just hope, but also trust. Every…

— Oliver Bullough

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

— Ronald Reagan

“Entire civilizations in history had ceased to exist. How had life in them felt in the last decades and days? Russia and the Russians…

— Masha Gessen

“He had always said to himself that there could be no persistence of personality, of character, of identity, of consciousness, except through memory; yet…

— Anonymous