The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true.… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“The days rolled by in the camp—they were over before you could say "knife." But the years, they never rolled by; they… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In the 1960s, I would have considered China with its CPC an ideologically more dynamic country than the Soviet Union. But the… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“Kennedy was not perfectly sure that Khrushchev was an entirely rational being. He was not absolutely certain that the Soviet Union wouldn't… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
Yes, Samantha, we in the Soviet Union are trying to do everything so that there will not be war on Earth. This… — Yuri Andropov Copy Share Image
I spent the '80s in the Soviet Union and when I came to America it was '89 and I was in an… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
“Submission can be forced with brutality. In the last century alone, over 100 million humans were murdered in the name of ideology… — Erika Ilves Copy Share Image
One of the most violent attacks on the Church in the Soviet Union was under Kruschev when, during a period of economic… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that… — Barack Obama 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
“This trial is a farce. The real prosecutor is not the state of Finland, but the government of one great power. The… — Risto Ryti Copy Share Image
Chamberlain's stubborn, fanatical insistence on giving Hitler what he wanted, his trips to Berchtesgaden and Godesberg and finally the fateful journey to… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
“Enrollments in American colleges tripled between 1955 and 1970, 250% in the Soviet Union, 400% in France, and more than 200% in… — John Gaddis Copy Share Image
“As is now generally admitted, a Soviet bomb would not have been achieved for several years more but for the success of… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
“Marxism in the Soviet Union had been boiled down to the understanding that people—Soviet citizens—were shaped entirely by their society and the… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
When I looked into the story of Soviet hockey and its players, I realized that it has nothing to do with hockey.… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
That nations that have gone for equality, like Communism, have neither freedom nor justice nor equality, they've the greatest inequalities of all,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“I'm the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and receding farther and farther… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“Well, it depends which planned economies you mean. There are lots of planned economies―the United States is a planned economy, for example.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Extractive institutions are so common in history because they have a powerful logic: they can generate some limited prosperity while at the… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“I'm a religious man," he said. "I don't believe in a particular God, but even so one can have a faith, something… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“The Soviets, at least some of them, believed in what they were doing. After all, they did it themselves and recorded what… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Nuclear weapons have only been used twice, both times in the war against Japan. In each case it was used by the… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“When Communism fell in 1989, the temptation for Western commentators to gloat triumphantly proved irresistible. This, it was declared, marked the end… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“It was quiet in the cell. Rubashov heard only the creaking of his steps on the tiles. Six and a half steps… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Now we will live!” This is what the hungry little boy liked to say, as he toddled along the quiet roadside, or… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
NATO and the USA wanted a complete victory over the Soviet Union. They wanted to sit on the throne in Europe alone. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of… — Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr Copy Share Image
“In the Soviet Union every worker is a government worker, and they have a saying: As long as the bosses pretend to… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation… — Roger Nash Baldwin Copy Share Image
I've never been to the Soviet Union and the main reason for that is I was warned several times by people from… — Brian Crozier Copy Share Image
We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
