“My television teaches me that everything was wonderful in the Soviet Union. According to the programs I watch, the KGB and apparatchiks were angels, and the Stalin era was so festive that the heroes of the day must still be celebrated today.” StillsTodayWatchesTeachWonderfulTelevisionHeroAngelProgramUnionsErasSovietSoviet UnionFestiveKgb Author:Vladimir Sorokin
“I think that what started out as a European Union originally was probably a really wonderful and world-changing idea, the idea of a kind of cooperation and interdependence between countries. But the idea that individualization would work on common ground, not on conflict, not against each other, but to find how each benefitted from the other I thought was an incredibly hopeful and positive possibility.” ThinkingWorldKindIdeasCountryCommonWonderfulPossibilityConflictUnionsHopefulCooperationEuropean UnionInterdependenceCommon GroundIndividualization Author:Tavis Smiley
“We had in the West a very romantic vision of Russia back in 1991, when the Soviet Union died and whatever is Russia began to emerge. And we began to think of it as a democracy. We're going to bring it into the West. All is going to be wonderful. That was never in the cards.” ThinkingVisionDemocracyWonderfulDiedUnionsWestRussiaCardsSovietSoviet UnionVery Romantic Author:Marvin Kalb