It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get… — Vagit Alekperov Copy Share Image
“Had he won the battle of Stalingrad, he would have been sitting there, too; for any war against our Soviet Union must… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“Here a man can live. All right, it's a 'special' camp. So what? Does it bother you to wear a number? They… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We have a freer world because of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the changes in China. Those two have been… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Thirteen years after the end of the Soviet Union, the American press establishment seemed eager to turn Ukraine's protested presidential election on… — Stephen Cohen Copy Share Image
Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“Whenever the communists are under fire, it [the term "red-baiter"] has served to divert attention from the subject matter to futile discussion… — Eugene Lyons Copy Share Image
I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union was, by the 1970s and 1980s, relatively stable and predictable. Putin's Russia is much more volatile. Nuclear policy is… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
My first-ever game was at the 1966 World Cup. The old man was a bricklayer's labourer, on a job in the north-east… — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on,… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Al-Qaida became the new Soviet Union, and in the process, Bin Laden became a demonic, terrifyingly powerful figure brooding in a cave… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
It is a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union's most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that World War II was experienced very much as a continuity in that sense. Most of World War… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Whether the recollection is of fascist Italy in the 1920s, of Nazi Germany of the 1930s, of the Soviet Union during the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
She's the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and receding farther and farther… — Tamika-leeigh Copy Share Image
“Like a lot of lawyers in the party, my father combined uncritical devotion to the imaginary Soviet Union in his head with… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
“If the Holocaust is reduced to Auschwitz, then it can easily be forgotten that the German mass killing of Jews began in… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Karl Marx got a bum rap. All he was trying to do was figure out how to take care of a whole… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The thing that should most concern us is a shift in American foreign policy. We have had a bipartisan belief in American… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Alexander speaks. “Anthony, I’m going to tell you something. In 1941, when I met your mother, she had turned seventeen and was… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried,… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
The collapse of the Soviet Union could not have been a source of national pride for many in Russia. The one person… — Brandon Webb Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union collapsed without a lot of people thinking it should or would, whereas for Estonia, it was something we'd been… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
When we went to the moon and realized that the Soviet Union had no realistic plans of getting to the moon, then… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Having emigrated to the United States as a small boy from the Soviet Union, I am instinctively suspicious of socialism and inveterately… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
Just because the boogeyman of the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, it doesn't mean the world is living angelically. — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
My mother was a doctor, and I grew up with her in a little apartment belonging to my grandmother, because the Soviet… — Kersti Kaljulaid Copy Share Image
The most cost-effective move we could make in defense spending would be to shift the focus of CIA operations, giving this agency… — John P. Wheeler III Copy Share Image
When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player. — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
The fall of the Berlin Wall really demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a bad system, and what… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Just as we were engaged in a 20th-century Cold War against the communist Soviet Union, we too are now engaged in a… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image