Vladimir Bukovsky Quotes

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

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.

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

In Soviet Russia, party always finds you!

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.

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

From our perspective now, there is a not a huge understanding about the totalitarian Communism that Soviet Russia practiced during the 1950s - it was an atrocious system.

I ALWAYS LIKED MR STALIN.

It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.

There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.

In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state's role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.

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.

Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union.

All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held 'elections.' Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.

What is the secret of Stalin's unquestioned strength? He controls every wheel and screw of the party machine, which is the source of authority and power in the Soviet Union.

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.

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

With the suppression of all political parties, the bases were laid for the totalitarian state.

Russian scorn for liberal democracy has a long history, and a certain kind of Russian disdain for the West is nothing new. As far back as 1920, Lenin declared that parliaments were 'historically obsolete' and predicted that it was just a matter of time before they disappeared.

The U.S.S.R. was a totalitarian state in which judges and prosecutors were controlled by the ruling party. The result was injustice, oppression and corruption.

'Child 44' has no room for inconsequential choices because Stalinist Russia had no room for them, either.

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

During the entire communist era, communist ideology was imposed on children. That was Bolshevism.

Stalin's henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions.