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This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.

Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.

Of late, attempts have been made in the USA - at a high level and in a rather cynical form - to play the "Chinese card" against the USSR. This is a shortsighted and dangerous policy.

The USA and USSR will only agree when shrimps learn to fly.

The world would be better off with multiple superpowers. When Communist USSR was a superpower, the world was better off.

The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border of Afghanistan, I wrote to President Jimmy Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

Now the opportunity to destroy the USSR has arrived.

I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in hopes of saving it. In the end he could not.

The Russian economy is way down because of the price of oil, and because the USSR was a big chunk of it.

Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they would want it back.

In fact, we've entered a world which is arguably much more dangerous than [being] eyeball to eyeball with the USSR.

I am truly happy that I am able to travel from time to time to the USSR the country I love above all. I always have been, I am now and will always be a loyal friend of the Soviet Union.

Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology.

Japan announced that it would not comply with this declaration [ 1956]. Later on, the Soviet Union also declared that the declaration could not be fulfilled unilaterally, by the USSR alone.

Who is the true friend of the people? Fascism is. Who has done the most for the working man? The USSR or Hitler? Hitler has... Who has done the most for the small businessman? Not Thorez but Hitler!

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a tool of government. Case in point, Stalinist USSR was a "democracy".

And I said, 'Do I have leprosy?' And they said, 'You are a dangerous element.

Art was the first casualty of the Socialist and Communist revolutions of the 20th Century. Socialists killed the independent thinkers first.

Truth and justice are commonly found in the personality of the paranoid delusional