This power, this authority, Soviet power: they killed everybody who could make any resistance, who could explain his own way of thinking and who could follow his own way of thinking, of believing.

The experience of opposing mass movements was acquired by the KGB during perestroika. It was then that the politicians decided to develop and nourish mass movements for their purposes.

I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.

Vladimir Bukovsky Quotes