I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
There (in the Soviet Union) it was a science. In order to be a coach, you had to study in school. — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
We should learn to tolerate nuclear weapons of North Korea just like we did the Soviet Union. — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed -- socialism doesn't work, — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Nothing in our lifetimes has been more heartening than when people of the former Soviet Union and Central Europe broke the grip… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I think Putin wants to recreate as much of the Soviet Union as he can through a variety of different means. He's… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
In the Soviet Union, for instance, the pressure on the chess stars was immense. When Boris Spassky came home after losing that… — Liz Garbus Copy Share Image
“In the Soviet Union there is freedom of speech. But it's not written anywhere that one should be free after his speech.” — Sergey Grechishkin Copy Share Image
It was a very difficult time after the fall of the Soviet Union. Jobs were difficult, and you had to fight to… — Gennady Golovkin Copy Share Image
I am truly happy that I am able to travel from time to time to the USSR the country I love above… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
A missile is a missile. It makes no great difference whether you are killed by a missile fired from the Soviet Union… — Elie Abel Copy Share Image
Since 9/11 the United States has been followed by countries with bad records, such as the former Soviet Union countries, into erosions… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
“Both the United States and the Soviet Union had been born in revolution. Both embraced ideologies with global aspirations: what worked at… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
I am a citizen of the Soviet Union and I think sharp measures need to be taken against anti-Soviet forces that are… — Konstantin Rokossovsky Copy Share Image
After Stalin died, the Soviet Union began inching toward the world again. The ban on jazz was lifted. Ernest Hemingway was published;… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
“But the heart and soul of the Other Dream Team, as some called Lithuania, was the mustachioed guard Sarunas Marciulionis. It was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the United States worked to contain the Soviet Union during the Cold War, we went to enormous lengths to get as… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
“The USA, the Soviet Union and the GDR want to raise the Titanic,’ he says, lifting his eyebrows. ‘The USA wants the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
John Kerry and the other Democratic leaders are on the wrong side of history, as they were during the Reagan presidency. If… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Thirdly, Casey committed CIA support to a long-standing ISI initiative to recruit radical Muslims from around the world to come to Pakistan… — Ahmed Rashid Copy Share Image
Judging by their positions at the time, rather than their post hoc allegations, Democrats adored the Soviet Union. Congressional Democrats repeatedly opposed… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
“Regardless of their leaders' decisions, nation-states-their bureaucratic reach augmented by the increasingly centralized orchestration of tax revenues, industrial and communications technologies, military… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“World War II did more than usher in unparalleled prosperity for the United States. It transformed America's foreign relations. The war devastated… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“Well, let me just end with one last point to do with your question. One of the issues which has devastated a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In the absence of expert [senior military] advice, we have seen each successive administration fail in the business of strategy - yielding… — Edward Luttwak Copy Share Image
“Stalin perceived the world in stark black and white. In the same way, he divided people, nations, actions, and ideas into only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“History can familiarize, and it can warn. In the late nineteenth century, just as in the late twentieth century, the expansion of… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“It is clear enough why both major propaganda systems insist upon this fantasy. Since its origins, the Soviet State has attempted to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
“Call no man lucky until he is dead, but there have been moment of rare satisfaction in the often random and fragmented… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Both fascism and communism were responses to globalization: to the real and perceived inequalities it created, and the apparent helplessness of the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
![“In the absence of expert [senior military] advice, we have seen each successive administration fail in the business of strategy - yielding a United States twice as rich as the Soviet Union but much less strong. Only the manner of the failure has changed. In the 1960s, under Robert S. McNamara, we…” quote by Edward Luttwak](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b55/edward-luttwak-63709_art-of-war_in-the-absence-of-expert-senior-military_133876.jpg)
