We who are members of the Communist Party repudiate the exclusive identification of democracy with capitalism. We declare that democracy can be… — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union was a partial check on capitalist looting in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. However, with the Soviet collapse,… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Think about it: Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Vietnam, North Korea, the former Soviet Union - they all start with the intention of leveling… — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
Soviet mathematics was particularly good in the second half of the 20th century, basically because of the arms race, because the Soviet… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
In the late 1980s, Soviets were allowed to keep the wealth they created by raising vegetables on their garden plots. Although these… — Mary Ruwart Copy Share Image
But on that sunlit Sunday, Alexander knew nothing, thought nothing, imagined nothing. He forgot Dimitri and war and the Soviet Union and… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
Reagan won the Cold War by first restoring America's economy and military and then staring down an economically weakened Soviet Union. He… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
If we haven't become the Liberty Party of an undoubted future, let us take this fact: the great totalitarian regimes have died.… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Here's the truth: the Soviet Union had thousands of nuclear weapons, and Iran doesn't have a single one. But when the world… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“In the Soviet Union, for example, shooting or jailing political opponents at first helped the Communist Party and then Josef Stalin gain… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
One answer to why public interest in men's tennis has been on the wane in recent years is an essential and unpretty… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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“History is made up of "moral" judgments based on politics. We condemned Lenin's acceptance of money from the Germans in 1917 but… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
When Cuba lost their fossil fuel pipeline when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990. Overnight they had no choice, they had to… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
And lastly, Chairman Khrushchev has compared the United States to a worn-out runner living on its past performance, and stated that the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My own kids were with me in Berlin when Germany was reunited, and they were with me in Moscow when the Soviet… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
“War reporter Lawrence Sheets’s edgy memoir evokes exactly the fatalism, confusion, and centrifugal forces that suddenly broke up the Soviet Union two… — Hugh Pope Copy Share Image
It was probably one of the things that gave me a sense of possibility and allowed for me to see beyond the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
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Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Stalin had developed an interesting new theory: that resistance to socialism increases as its successes mount, because its foes resist with greater… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened… — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, I was convinced that I could be selected as an astronaut. Ed White had been accepted, and we had flown together… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Honduras is strongly anti-Communist, maintains no diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, and has provided vital support for United States-backed rebels fighting… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization:… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“The AK-47 was christened with blood not as a tool for liberation or to defend the Soviet Union from invaders. It made… — C.J. Chivers Copy Share Image
There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration… The United States does notconcede… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did more to liberate people by defeating the Soviet Union and freeing eastern Europe than the Obamas,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“An essential truth about Eisenhower and Dulles’s policy on the Soviet Union is revealed in these minutes. Though they talked tough for… — Alex von Tunzelmann Copy Share Image
The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“No betrayal was more acute than Molotov’s for his beloved wife Polina Zhemchuzhina, a Jew who was arrested in 1948 and did… — Mark B. Smith Copy Share Image
I consider myself Russian-American because I'm American by ethnicity and by passport, but I spent all my forming years over in the… — Lana Copy Share Image
If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
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