“ Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day that I was born, 13 April 1949, nineteen senior Nazi officials were… Christopher Hitchens
“ Democracy is not a form of government. It is a tool of government. Case in point, Stalinist USSR was a "democracy". A.E. Samaan
“ Art was the first casualty of the Socialist and Communist revolutions of the 20th Century. Socialists killed the independent thinkers first. A.E. Samaan
“ LENIN = "Revolutionary Social Democracy"American Socialists = "Democratic Socialism". What is the difference? The USSR held democratic referendums too; all of which increased the power of the central… A.E. Samaan
“ Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the invisible hand of the market. When the plan was formulated in tons of steel sheet, the… Daron Acemoğlu
“ It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA. Jorge Luis Borges
“ Far from addressing the Soviet nationalities question, the Afghan adventure had, as was by now all too clear, exacerbated it. If the USSR faced an intractable set of national minorities, this was in p… Tony Judt
“ In insisting that peasant activity contrary to Communist policies could be defined as kulak while at the same time maintaining that his approach to the peasantry was based on scientific Marxist class… Lynne Viola
“ Pope Pius XI called for a world-wide day of prayer, to be held on 16 March 1930, on behalf of the persecuted believers in Russia. This action led Stalin to suspend temporarily the antireligious campai… Lynne Viola
“ What had been a region of model farming became almost a desert, for more than half the population was exiled or sent to concentration camps. The young people left the villages, the boys to go to the f… Freda Utley
