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By the mid-nineteen-sixties, the Soviet state was no longer promising its citizens a utopian Communist future. Under Brezhnev, the state stopped working on a vision of the future and, instead, focussed on the past,
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In America, you assassinate president. In Soviet Russia, president assassinate you!
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I've been writing a lot about a new form of Russian imperialism. Actually, Russian Orthodox imperialism. It's very little remarked that the cement, the political, ideological cement of the Russian regime now, communism having collapsed and imploded, is increasingly a confessional one.
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Going back to the 1920s, when Stalin ordered the most famous animal breeder in Russia to do it, to make a new race of soldiers for him. His name was Ivanov,
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I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
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Open the doors, the Russians say, here comes trouble. On
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I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian.
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Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.
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Russians consider themselves civilized Europeans, but have to endure the humiliation of daily encounters with officials that belong in a squalid dictatorship.
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[The Soviet State Security Service] is more than a secret police organization, more than an intelligence and counter-intelligence organization. It is an instrument for subversion, manipulation and violence, for secret intervention in the affairs of other countries.
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Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet!
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I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.
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Welcome to the First International Red Fighting Brigade of the Moscow Metropolitan in the name of Ernesto Che Guevara!
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It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those who remained were firing into the blank pages in front of them. Three languages interwove. The Russian, the bullets, the German.
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Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the U.S. Post Office.
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We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.
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If you can survive soviet union you will survive anywhere
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This power, this authority, Soviet power: they killed everybody who could make any resistance, who could explain his own way of thinking and who could follow his own way of thinking, of believing.
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We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.
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Both the United States and the Soviet Union had been born in revolution. Both embraced ideologies with global aspirations: what worked at home, their leaders assumed, would also do so for the rest of the world.
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The Soviet experience was much worse than experts in the West had thought. That discovery had a tremendous impact both on the intellectual community and on the public at large.
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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For dynamic energy, driving force, and discipline, the Russian Communist Party is unique the world over, perhaps even throughout history.
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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
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Now the opportunity to destroy the USSR has arrived.
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I went to Russia a Communist; but contact with those who have no doubts has intensified a thousandfold my own doubts, not as to Communism in itself, but as to the wisdom of holding a creed so firmly that for its sake men are willing to inflict widespread misery.
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I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.
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In the former Soviet republics, there are three staples of life: vodka, chocolate, and corruption. I know someone who once survived in Uzbekistan for two weeks solely on these three items.
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The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.
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By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of God will have been banished from the Soviet Union as a remnant of the Middle Ages, which has been used for the purpose of oppressing the working classes.
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I'm big in Russia, but no one's quite sure why.
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Seventy-plus years in the Marxist-Leninist laboratory gave rise to a new man: Homo sovieticus. Some see
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I took a Russian class at Notre Dame. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would fly someday in a Russian spacecraft with two cosmonauts, speaking only Russian.
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I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.
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Russia is classic fascism.
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Soviet imperialism's as bad as American capitalism.
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Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.
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You can't imagine what the Russian alphabet looks like. It's no wonder people are illiterate.
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So very Russian," people around were murmuring. That they did meant this was an audience pretty low down on the scale of sophistication, otherwise they would be saying, "Just like us, isn't it?
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[The Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth; they are the focus of evil in the modern world.
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Referring to Russian commissars as half-gramophones, half-gangsters.
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There are things in Russia which are not as they seem.
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Russia! Russia ... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker's gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you?
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The Bolshevik slogans and ideas on the whole have been confirmed by history; but concretely things have worked out differently; they are more original, more peculiar, more varied than anyone could have expected.
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These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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The Soviet "creative intelligentsia" - that is, people accustomed to thinking one thing, saying another and doing a third - is as a whole an even more unpleasant phenomenon than the regime which gave it birth.
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War reporter Lawrence Sheets's edgy memoir evokes exactly the fatalism, confusion, and centrifugal forces that suddenly broke up the Soviet Union two decades ago. Refreshingly free of faraway theorizing, this book focuses on what people actually saw and experienced in those years.
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This isn't Soviet Russia. This is America we're talking about. For God's sake, this is New York City.
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The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon
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Where were they when the Russians went down?
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I've never been to the Soviet Union and the main reason for that is I was warned several times by people from the KGB who had defected to the West that it would be very unsafe for me to go there
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Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
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A Russian who uses his imagination is done for. I certainly never use mine.
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The Soviet Union welcomed the new system. At the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, urgent messages from the Soviet ambassador in Washington had been encoded by hand and then given to a Western Union messenger who arrived at the embassy on a bicycle.
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The Russian norm is an extremely barbaric state of mind.
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Russian can't convince another Russian of anything without obscenities. I
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That which distinguishes the Soviet system both from other national systems and from the progressive schools of other countries is the conscious control of every educational procedure by reference to a single and comprehensive social purpose.
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out my cigarettes, break each one in half and give them to the Russians. They bow to me and then light the cigarettes. Now red points glow in every face. They comfort me; it looks as though there were little windows in dark village cottages saying that behind them are rooms full of peace. The
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Visitors who come from the Soviet Union and tell you how marvelous it is to be able to look at public buildings without advertisements stuck all over them are just telling you that they can't decipher the cyrillic alphabet.
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But there was also a car - for the GDR an expensive car, a Russian Lada - that
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If you ask anyone on any street corner in the world what the Soviet Union looks like, they would probably have very strong opinions. And they probably would be wrong.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.
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We know the Russian methods exactly. I haven't the faintest intention of being taken prisoner by the Russians.
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A great deal of the pupils time was spent going through, once again, the History of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the Soviet Union. He had learnt it at elementary school; at secondary school; at his sports club; at the Komsomol; at the university; at a folk dancing course; at the chess-club.
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You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty.
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I'm one-fourth Tatar and three-fourths Bashkirian.
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The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
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Russians understand the rhythm of despair.
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The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.
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In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.
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For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.
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There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
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The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.
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Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.
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Everyone is from Russia. Sometimes I think I'm from Russia, too. All these new Ovas. I don't know anyone. I don't really recognise anyone. That's just how it is. I think my name must be Williamsova.
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The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like that.
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Russian medical Professor
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I don't really know what 'American' is. I know what Ukrainian is. We're happy Slavic people. We're not Dostoyevsky Slavic people. There's this sense of 'pick it up, get your hands dirty, make the best of it, celebrate.'
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Then a beat-up car lurched into sight towing an even more beat-up car. As the cars came near, I saw that they were connected back to front by a loop made of two seat belts buckled to each other. That was the only time I ever saw a Russian use a seat belt for any purpose at all.
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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness.
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Soviet moviegoers gazed enviously on the jalopy that took the Joads from Oklahoma to California. The message Russians took from 'The Grapes of Wrath': even the poorest capitalists have cars!
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Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
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Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.
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My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.
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The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.
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Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.
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I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style government.
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Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.
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Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God .
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In Russia, whatever be the appearance of things, violence and arbitrary rule is at the bottom of them all. Tyranny rendered calm by the influence of terror is the only kind of happiness which this government is able to afford its people.
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By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West.
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No one is born a Communist ... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.
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In Soviet thinking the concept of economy of force has little place. Whereas to an Englishman the taking of a sledgehammer to crack a nut is a wrong decision and a sign of mental immaturity ... in Russian eyes the cracking of nuts is clearly what sledgehammers are for.
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The German leaders, said Winston Churchill, turned upon Russia the most grisly of all weapons. They transported Lenin in a sealed truck like a plague bacillus from Switzerland into Russia.