Communist Bloc Quotes

The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed.

There is no hope for any nation or group that allows itself to be drawn into the orbit of international communism.

If there's Cold War, no 'Star Wars' in China.

In the old days, the Soviets were using space as a selling point for communism.

People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.

We were behind the iron curtain at last.

The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe... All these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.

The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians.

When communism collapsed in 1989, the big story that had been hardwired into citizens of western countries - that of the global battle against a distant dark and evil force - came to an abrupt end.

I can recall photographs of Comrade Ulbricht being embraced by Comrade Brezhnev, which must have been like putting your arms around Grant's Tomb.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.

The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable.

When I was 16, I went to Berlin - West Berlin, since at that time a wall still divided the city - to live for three months with a family on an exchange program.

You know, I grew up in the East part of Germany so we never had English in school, we had to learn Russian.

What my Republican colleagues often don't understand is that labor is a human-rights issue. I have to remind them Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement brought down the Communist bloc.

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

The drafters of the [Refugee Convention ] had the Cold War in mind and mainly sought to protect a few thousand dissidents from the Communist bloc. They did not envision the mass displacements of people we are seeing today.

The problem is not so much that they are Communists as it is that they are Russians.

There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.

The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.

The Soviet Union is a first rate military power and a fourth rate economic power.

My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin.

When you think of the Cold War, there are various places where you imagine espionage. Espionage crossroads of the Cold War bring you to the backstreets of Berlin, or Vienna.

My brother and I sympathize with the Soviet fear of German revanchists.