You a Communist or something? How would you like it they tell you all the time what to think, what to do, you wanna be like a sheep, like everybody else. Baa baa? Puta! You want a stoolie on every block? You wanna work eight hours a day and you never own nothing? I ate octopus three times a day, fucking octopus is coming out my ears, fuckin' Russian shoes are eating through my feet. Whaddaya want? You want me to stay there? Hey, I'm no little whore, I'm no stinking thief!
How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
Merkin Muffley: — Try one of these Jamaican cigars, ambassador. They're good.
Alexei de Sadeski: — Thank you, no. I do not support the work of imperialist stooges.
Merkin Muffley: — Oh, only Commie stooges, huh?
Buck Turgidson: — Mr. President. You're gonna let that lousy Commie punk vomit all over us like this?
I can no longer sit back and allow... Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination... Communist subversion... and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
— Factories are shut, mines are shut, coal's running out. Did you ever consider the possibility that the communists might win? And you and me, traitors to our class, will be put up against a wall and shot.
— As a businessman, I consider all possibilities. But, Mr Devlin, I'm not a traitor to my class. I am just an extreme example of what a working man can achieve.
On the other hand stalin was in no rush to institute revolutionary change, if at all. As in Greece, he recognized that the communists, although they'd often played a leading role in anti-nazi resistance movements, represented a minority element in most of these liberated nations. Never having shared trotsky's zeal for international communism, he had once remarked that communism fit poland like a saddle fit a cow.