“In the Soviet Union, it's takes more courage to retreat than advance.”
“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”
“. . .how he had loved Christine more than he had understood, that sometimes one forgot what it meant, really, to love, the way the tide of a marriage advances and retreats, . .”
“He who does not regret the break-up of the Soviet Union has no heart; he who wants to revive it in its previous form has no head.”
“Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.”
“I hated life in the Soviet Union. You had to pretend something you didn't feel.”