Jay Roach Quotes

In Soviet Russia, party always finds you!

Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be.

The Soviet state builds bodies—mounds of them.

… the inhuman communist police state tyranny

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.

Fig leaves of democratic procedure … hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship

They didn't begin telling the truth in the Soviet Union until after it collapsed, did they?

… the unfortunate but inevitable connection between the word “socialism” and the unmitigated crucifixion of Civil Liberties in the East [Eastern Europe dominated by the Russian Communist Party.

Nothing can excuse the cruelties of Communist Russia, though in the East torture does not provoke revolt as it would in the West.

Saddam Hussein admired, studied, and copied Stalin, the paragon of modern dictators.

I love 'The Master And Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov, which is about repression in Soviet Russia in the 1930s.

I think that Russia was like a lot of other countries, a lot of empires, in being a tyranny up until the early 20th century. Then Russia had something that no other country has had, which is the longest totalitarian experiment in history.

This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union - and we know how successful that was.

The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.

The Soviet Union was a one-party state. In such states, enemies of the party become enemies of the state, and the state can punish with full weight of prosecution.

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule.

Dystopian novels, such as Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments.

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.

The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable.

Stalin's methods did not help.

In its mad passion for power, the Communist State even sought to strengthen and deepen the very ideas and conceptions which the Revolution had come to destroy. It supported and encouraged all the worst antisocial qualities and systematically destroyed the already awakened conception of the new revolutionary values

Stalin is a strong, ruthless revolutionist and therefore a very potential threat to future world conditions.