Slavoj Zizek Quotes

Putin has demonstrated his fondness for the Cold War…. Once a KBG agent, always a KGB agent.

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

We were behind the iron curtain at last.

… 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.

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.

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

I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.

The difference between eastern Europe and the United States is that the United States still has a Communist party.

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

There is no room for communists in Kenya.

Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.

When I entered the film school at the Prague Academy in the '50s, it was the hardest time in the Communist countries. The ideological control of the society was almost absolute.

The wild open-market theory that died in 1929 had a run of just over thirty years. Communism, a complete melding of religious, economic, and global theories, stretched to seventy years in Russia and forty-five years in central Europe, thanks precisely to the intensive use of military and police force.

When we were in school, we were told that Stalin was a madman who got control of Europe, which teaches you nothing.

It's bleak behind the Iron Curtain, although they do have the strongest vodka I've ever had in my life.

We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.

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

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

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces.

The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.

In Georgia, people had already understood that communism couldn't survive, and I came to the institute in Moscow, and people still believed in it. They were completely different people, and I found it very difficult psychologically.

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 grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.

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.