Vaclav Klaus Quotes

There was a joke in Czechoslovakia: The Communist Party dance, it's one step forward, two steps backward, and everyone is still clapping.

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

Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.

The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.

The worst thing our Communists could do to us, and the thing we have most to fear from their activities, is that we should become like them.

Sasha, aren’t you a good communist? How can you allow so much ideological freedom? Do something!.

The Soviet state builds bodies—mounds of them.

When the FBI adopts the tactics of the Soviet Union and Hitler's Gestapo, it's time for the Director no longer to be the Director.

Communism in reality is not a political party. It is a way of life—an evil and malignant way of life.

Fig leaves of democratic procedure … hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship

Socialism is a new form of slavery.

Stalin's methods did not help.

Islam is a totalitarian ideology. It rules every aspect of life — economics, family law, whatever. It has religious symbols, it has a God, it has a book — but it’s not a religion. It can be compared with totalitarian ideologies like Communism or fascism. There is no country where Islam is dominant where you have a real democracy, a real separation between church and state.

… 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.

In its mad passion for power, the Communist State even sought to strengthen and deepen the very ideas and conceptions which the Revolution had come to destroy. It supported and encouraged all the worst antisocial qualities and systematically destroyed the already awakened conception of the new revolutionary values

Nothing can excuse the cruelties of Communist Russia, though in the East torture does not provoke revolt as it would in the West.

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

Russia is now very far from being a communist country, but when I walked around Moscow, I kept glimpsing these haunting images. There were statues of Lenin and some neon signs of the hammer and sickle. I remembered myself then as a little girl, living under that oppression.

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

In their efforts to discredit human freedom, the Putinites denounce the sins that may occur under the reign of liberty with the same ardor, the same sincerity, and the same purpose that animated their Soviet forebears.

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

Communism means barbarism.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism.

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