A Czech is asked, Do you consider Russians your brothers or your friends?
My brothers, of course, the Czech replies.
Why 'of course'?
I get to choose my friends.

Soviet-era The Tyranny of Fraternal Assistance

Next Thursday will be the 35th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Prague, a vile act which put an iron blanket over freedom in Central Europe for the next 21 years. The University of Michigan has an interesting website full of documents and posters from the first few days after the tanks rolled in.
· Most people probably could not point to Czechoslovak High Tatra Moutains on a map [Reason via The Volokh Conspiracy]

You can't get good chinese takeout in China and cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about communism.
These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.
-- P.J. O'Rourke
· Cold River is microcosm of the Cold War. Big Brother's cold hand drowned two young men in the Morava River. [Saloon: Mr Michael Orthofer, Managing Editor, at The Complete Review ]