Ronald Reagan Quotes

Russia is an Evil Empire.

My entire life was dedicated to defeating communism. I felt really great when Ronald Reagan helped us establish peace and the elimination of communism from Russia. We are now dealing with a national power, and, you know, it is a big power in the world. It's no longer being motivated by communist ideology that has it trying to overthrow democratic governments and replace them with atheistic communist dictatorships.

Generalissimo of the Forces for the Suppression of Communism

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.

Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.

An iron curtain has descended over Europe.

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

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.

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous.

The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever.

Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

The Soviet state builds bodies—mounds of them.

The Cold War is Over

We are witnessing the collapse of Bolshevism.

If only I could dine with Stalin once a week, there would be no trouble at all.

Heaven’s Yes. I was hopelessly naïve regarding Joseph Stalin. I thought he just drove too hard.

… 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.

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

Stalin, of course, never went on trial, but his legacy did. In 1956, three years after his death, he was denounced by Nikita Khrushchev. And his crimes were even more explicitly exposed by Mikhail Gorbachev during the late '80s. Yet to many, Stalin remains more legitimate as a Russian leader than anyone since.

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

For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives.

I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

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

I think that Russia was like a lot of other countries, a lot of empires, in being a tyranny up until the early 20th century. Then Russia had something that no other country has had, which is the longest totalitarian experiment in history.