Any Quote by Vladimir Bukovsky

“Authority in Russia had always been transferred through natural death, conspiracy or revolution,”

— Steven Lee Myers

“he'd never believed that power, in any shape or form, was anything more than the intemperate protrusion on the egomaniacal heart. Since all egomaniacs…

— Dennis Lehane

“Either way, it is a curio of the moment that hard-left advocates of ‘all power to the soviets’ were delegated by a soviet opponent…

— China Miéville

The divine impeccability of the immortal [Soviet] State turned out not only to have suppressed individual human beings but also to have defended them,…

— Vasily Grossman

“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

[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

He possessed the power. He held it in his hand. A power stronger than the power of money or the power of terror or…

— Patrick Süskind

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

— Anonymous

“Stalin perceived the world in stark black and white. In the same way, he divided people, nations, actions, and ideas into only two absolute…

— Anonymous

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

— Vladimir Lenin

“Soviet leaders had to treat the outside world as hostile because this provided the only excuse “for the dictatorship without which they did not…

— John Lewis Gaddis

“At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a partner to the European conversation about…

— Masha Gessen