#communist

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#communists #did #east asia #end #in the end

It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#disaster #economic #encourage #europe #felt

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#communist #conservative #controlled #criteria #democrat

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#communist party #cuban #extremely #founders #grew

The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union. ↗

— Giovanni Agnelli

#communist #communist party #communists #italian #italy

Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just recently transitioned. And there were still the police towers on the street corners, where they look down - they were still there, although no one was in them. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#because #been #bulgaria #communist #corners

When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were. ↗

— Bram Fischer

#back #cast #century #communist #communist party

The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#cause #communists #economists #etc #getting

You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing. ↗

— Milos Forman

#communist #countries #films #know #literature

I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

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