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Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which was the most Communist (and in the rather orthodox sense) of the Palestinian formations. I remember Edward once surprising me by saying, and apropos of nothing: 'Do you know something I have never done in my political career? I have never publicly criticized the Soviet Union. It’s not that I terribly sympathize with them or anything—it's just that the Soviets have never done anything to harm me, or us.' At the time I thought this a rather naïve statement, even perhaps a slightly contemptible one, but by then I had been in parts of the Middle East where it could come as a blessed relief to meet a consecrated Moscow-line atheist-dogmatist, if only for the comparatively rational humanism that he evinced amid so much religious barking and mania. It was only later to occur to me that Edward's pronounced dislike of George Orwell was something to which I ought to have paid more attention.


Christopher Hitchens


#communism #dflp #dogmatism #edward-said #humanism

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.


Dalai Lama


#difficult #eastern #european #european countries #example

Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage.


Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.


#case #every #fool #full #gives

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.


Golda Meir


#ideals #most #realistic #regime #soviet

I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.


Karen Morley


#bread #daily #daily bread #did #i

Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed.


Azar Nafisi


#against #come #developed #did #economy

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.


Richard M. Nixon


#castro #even #go #nickel #put

When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.


Alex North


#decided #go #i #music #soviet

I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war.


Douglass North


#become #beliefs #communist #else #everybody

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.


Ronald Reagan


#because #come #everybody #existence #into






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