Nikita Khrushchev Quotes

We face a hostile ideology [Communism]—global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method.

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

There is no hope for any nation or group that allows itself to be drawn into the orbit of international communism.

People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.

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

In the old days, the Soviets were using space as a selling point for communism.

I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

Most of them are military commanders, country notables and landowners, and educated people. It is inconceivable that such a group should incline to the theory of Communism. But if Western countries persist in applying unjust pressure, they may well throw themselves into Russia’s arms.

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

The existence of the: Soviet Republic, side by side with the imperialist states for a long time is unthinkable. One or the other must triumph in the end.

Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.

I had studied Russian in college. I had gotten into it first through literature and then just really found it kind of fascinating; of course, this was during the Cold War. So they were kind of the other great enemy that you grew up hearing about.

In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.

To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!

Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.

Psychology and economics are Stalin's favorable winds. He is also the party 'boss.' But he is, in addition, the Soviet Union's most striking personality.

Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.