The Soviet Union is an Evil Empire, and Soviet communism is the focus of evil in the modern world — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“In the Soviet Union, it's takes more courage to retreat than advance.” — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy. — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the… — George Will Copy Share Image
It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control… — Sergei Ivanov Copy Share Image
We need to make it very clear to the Iranians, the same way we made it clear to the Soviet Union and… — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
Putin is not a mass murderer. But, having said that, he is a product of the KGB, and the KGB was, of… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
When the Soviet Union collapsed, the television businesses found it was easier to hire 16- or 18-year-olds and teach them everything from… — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
“(In the Soviet Union, it was forbidden to celebrate Christmas. In order to keep the much beloved custom of the Christmas Tree—and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The naive thing I suppose is simply that we thought, in the words of Francis Fukuyama, that we had reached the end… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy… — Olga Korbut Copy Share Image
“The war in China exemplified a fact often forgotten about the Second World War: globally, more non-combatants perished than uniformed participants. Civilians… — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
Back in 1956, we signed a treaty and surprisingly it was ratified both by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
When you look around the world, every place that socialism has been implemented, it has failed miserably, destroying the economy, freedom and… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
If the present White House leadership runs the gauntlet of common sense and the people's will for peace and challenges us by… — Dmitriy Ustinov Copy Share Image
The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
In the '80s, we were living in the U.S.S.R., where anti-Semitism was a deeply ingrained part of the culture. Being a Jewish… — Milana Vayntrub Copy Share Image
The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each against all.… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“I became convinced that the advanced industrial countries, through international organizations like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Trade Organization (WTO),… — Joseph E. Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Russia can fall apart. It's not because of the oil prices ... It's because what sticks a country together is a common… — Ilya Ponomarev Copy Share Image
Communism wasn't a word that I thought of when I went to Cuba. The original Fidelistas were not Communists. They were graduate… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“When the West turned down Egypt's request for financial assistance to build a new dam on the Nile -- a national project… — Mohamed El-Erian Copy Share Image
“ Ungratified sexuality is readily transformed into rage. "Prison explosions" are outbreaks of sadism resulting from the absence of sexual gratification. Hence,… — Wilhelm Reich 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 do not know whether the needed refinements are possible, nor do I know, speaking more generally, whether the full socialist ideal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There have been ample opportunities since 1945 to show that material superiority in war is not enough if the will to fight… — Richard Overy Copy Share Image
“The power in any society is with those who get to impose the fantasy. It is no longer, as it was for… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“It is quite unfathomable why the EU leadership fails to anticipate these potentially catastrophic possibilities, and fails to respond to popular concerns… — Byron M. Roth Copy Share Image
“The failure of Communism was consecrated in the fall of the Soviet Union. The remarkable thing is that, as in most cases… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
“The real question I am asking here is the one Marcuse asked in the sixties. How does a way of life break… — Rick Roderick 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
“Since its origins, socialism has meant the liberation of working people from exploitation. As the Marxist theoretician Anton Pannekoek observed, “this goal… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image