• Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the U.S. Post Office.

    Jimmy Carter: Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the U.S. Post Office.
    Jimmy Carter (2013). “Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President”, p.229, University of Arkansas Press