Russia/Soviet Union
- Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) (Gagné 2012, 178)
- Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915) (Gagné 2012, 178)
- Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
- Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) (Ashby 2004a, 3; Ashby 2004b, 351)
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“There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration.... The United States does not concede that those countries are under the domination of the Soviet Union.”
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“One difference between Nazi and Soviet camps was that in the latter dying was a slower process.”
—Terrence Des Pres (1939–1987)
“So we grew together
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition,
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)