FAMOUS QUOTATIONS ON THE SOVIET UNION

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, January 5, 1992                   TAG: 9201050275
SECTION: HORIZON                    PAGE: D-7   EDITION: METRO  
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium
FAMOUS QUOTATIONS ON THE SOVIET UNION
"Socialism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country."
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Dec. 22, 1920

"It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. . . ." - Winston Churchill, English statesman, Oct. 1, 1939

"The Soviet Union, as everybody who has the courage to face the fact knows, is run by a dictatorship as absolute as any other dictatorship in the world."
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Feb. 10, 1940

"I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo."
- President Harry S. Truman, June 11, 1948

"I have been over into the future, and it works."
- Lincoln Steffens, American writer, upon returning from 1919 visit to post-revolutionary Russia

"Communism is like Prohibition; it's a good idea, but it won't work."
- Humorist Will Rogers, from his autobiography
"Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you."
- Nikita S. Khrushchev at a reception at the Polish Embassy in Moscow, Nov. 18, 1956

"Communism really exists nowhere, least of all in the Soviet Union."
- Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito, 1958, as quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

"If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U.S.A., I would certainly choose the Soviet Union."
- English writer Graham Greene as quoted in Parade magazine, Oct. 29, 1967
"So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware . . . the temptation blithely to . . . label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire. . . ."
- President Ronald Reagan, March 8, 1983, in a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals

"The Marxist solution has failed, but the realities of marginalization and exploitation remain in the world. . . ."
- Pope John Paul II, May 2, 1991 in his encyclical "The Centenary"

"I am convinced that the discrediting of socialism in the eyes of the masses is a passing phase."
- Mikhail S. Gorbachev, from his memoir, "The August Coup"

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB