Communist Rule Quotes

There is no real public opinion in Communist countries. They are ruled by an oligarchy.

At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people.

If you create a new party... to try to deny the communist party leadership, then not be allowed to exist.

Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.

That is our dilemma in Poland. We don't like to be ruled by the East.

China’s rulers wanted row country to get rich, but not at the cost of control.

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

In 1949, Mao Tse-tung's Communists established the People's Republic of China, and the following year, his People's Liberation Army invaded central Tibet.

In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.

Communism of every type and stripe brings with it an ideological straight jacket. Thought control, brain-washing, censorship, imprisonment, exile, mental and physical torture are the indispensable weapons of Communist rule.

More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close.

The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.

Here in Florida, we know plenty about the Castro brothers, and we hear stories of their ruthless and violent rule far too often. It is shameful that we would grant them any shred of legitimacy.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.