Last Boat to Astrakhan Quotes

“Communism had hoped to replace Tsardom, but became a grotesque parody of it: crueller and more stupid.”
― Robert Haupt, Last Boat to Astrakhan: A Russian Memoir 1990-1996

“When all the other empires of the modern world declined, they fell apart: the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and British empires declined without ruining their metropolitan centres - the colonies being abroad, the contagion of defeat could be more or less isolated. When the Soviet empire fell, it fell down, not apart.”
― Robert Haupt, Last Boat to Astrakhan: A Russian Memoir 1990-1996