“In an ironic sense Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of the economic order are conflicting directly with those of the political order. But the crisis is happening not in the free, non-Marxist West but in the home of Marxism- Leninism, the Soviet Union. It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.”

 

Ronald Reagan, June 8, 1982, Speech to British House of Commons

 

 

“Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.”

 

Mikhail Gorbachev, Sept. 9, 1985, TIME Magazine

 

 

“A Soviet man is waiting in line to purchase vodka from a liquor store, but due to restrictions imposed by Gorbachev, the line is very long. The man loses his composure and screams, ‘I can't take this waiting in line anymore, I HATE Gorbachev, I am going to the Kremlin right now, and I am going to kill him!’ After 40 minutes, the man returns and elbows his way back to his place in line. The crowd begin to ask if he has succeeded in killing Gorbachev. ‘No, I got to the Kremlin all right, but the line to kill Gorbachev was even longer than here!’”

 

Soviet Era Joke