La situación actual se parece un poco al chiste que hacían los trabajadores de la antigua Unión Soviética: «¡Nosotros hacemos como que trabajamos y usted hace como que nos paga!»
Jeffrey D. SachsTags: joke soviet-union employer
He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the Soviet Union . This wasn't very long ago, Alex.The collapse of communism. It was only in 1989 that the Berlin Wall came down." She stopped. "I suppose none of this means very much to you."
"Well, it wouldn't," Alex said. "I was only two years old.
Tags: communism soviet-union berlin-wall alex-rider
Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and could not comprehend that such an assessment—which would yield a monstrous toll if accurately conducted on a global scale—might perhaps be a proper task in the United States. At the same level of integrity, disciplined Soviet intellectuals are horrified over real or alleged American crimes, but perceive their own only as benevolent intent gone awry, or errors of an earlier day, now overcome; the comparison is inexact and unfair, since Soviet intellectuals can plead fear as an excuse for their services to state violence.
Noam ChomskyTags: fear nationalism united-states hypocrisy violence intellectuals soviet-union consensus war-crimes international-law state-terrorism american-imperialism ronald-reagan reagan-doctrine state-sponsored-terrorism
Every infantryman in the Soviet Army carries with him a small spade. When he is given the order to halt he immediately lies flat and starts to dig a hole in the ground beside him.
Viktor SuvorovTags: military soviet-union
...The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been.
Arthur KoestlerTags: politics liberty communism soviet-union darkness-at-noon
But she never could keep it straight. All the letters, the acronyms, the codes, the colors, changing like musical chairs, every week, every month. Games demons play. It meant nothing to her, except in a charming sort of way, as it had when Naganya wanted to play at interrogation, while the rest of them wanted chess.
Catherynne M. ValenteTags: fairy-tales soviet-union
Writers are engineers of human souls.
Yury OleshaTags: writing writers soul literature soviet-union stalin yuri-olesha
Unlike other dictators, Stalin and his satraps never made the mistake of believing themselves beloved -- on the contrary they saw plots under every stone.
Anna ReidTags: world-war-ii soviet-union stalin leningrad
The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.
David RemnickTags: corruption mafia soviet-union communist-party russian-politics
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