Angela Merkel Quotes

… 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.

Very early, it became clear to me that East Germany could not function.

I don't want to live in a militarised country behind an iron curtain. It's boring. Been there and seen the movie. I've done that.

I was born too late to have any temptation with communism, or at least Soviet-type communism. Travelling in Eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union, you clearly don't want to defend a system that would have empty shops and a totalitarian regime and internal passports.

Russia is an Evil Empire.

We are witnessing the collapse of Bolshevism.

… the inhuman communist police state tyranny

We may be heading not for a general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity … the social structure that would probably prevail in a state which was at once unconquerable and in a permanent state of ‘cold war’ with its neighbors.

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

Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.

I grew up with communism, and if you live through communism you don't love it.

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

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

I was thinking of writers living in East Europe before the Berlin Wall came down. They wrote fantastic stuff but were dealing with a situation that was almost impossible to deal with, but they found a way.

Shortly afterwards my father told me that he might be going into the Eastern Zone of Germany. At that time my own mind was closer to his than it had ever been before, because he also believed that they are at least trying to build a new world.

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

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

I'd never been in a police state. I didn't know what it was. I knew that it was, in the general way that people know that two and two is four, but it had no emotional value for me until I found myself in the middle of it.

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

The Soviet state builds bodies—mounds of them.

Our fear of communism led us to embrace any dictator that joined us in that fear.

With the unwitting help of our modern Liberal leadership, Communism has now taken all but complete control of mankind.

We do not recognize the Communist regime on the mainland. We consider them bandits.