Communism Quote by Yasmine Hamdan

Because of the Lebanese civil war, I had a scattered childhood. I had to build my own connections to each country we moved to.

— Yasmine Hamdan

During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather,…

— Amin Maalouf

During my childhood in the Cold War, my family saw America as a great ally in our common struggle to keep back Soviet communism.

— Gavin Esler

I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them…

— Norman Wisdom

My parents left Libya in 1979, escaping political repression, and settled in Cairo. I was nine.

— Hisham Matar

My parents brought my sister and me to the United States to escape the communist takeover of Cuba. They sought to build their life…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

My family emigrated to the U.S. after the Iranian revolution in 1978.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

My family fled socialist regimes not once but twice.

— George Santos

My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat…

— Greg Kinnear

I covered the Lebanese civil war. I could see a place that had once been prosperous and now was impoverished. I'm not seeing that…

— P. J. O'Rourke

My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.

— Tim Roth

My father fled from the North, hating communism.

— Moon Jae-in