Soviet Quotes

In Soviet Russia, party always finds you!

— Yakov Smirnoff

The new European Soviet.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.

— Jerry Falwell

I'm very proud of Soviet aesthetics.

— Dasha Zhukova

In America, you drive car. In Soviet Russia, car drive you!

— Yakov Smirnoff

The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.

— Vladimir Putin

The Soviet Union has become the seacoast of the universe.

— Sergei Korolev

The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone.

— Svetlana Alexievich

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet.

— Joseph Brodsky

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

— Vladimir Putin

In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not…

— Alexander Dubcek

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.

— Newt Gingrich

Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.

— Salman Rushdie

If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face…

— Joseph Stalin

We know that the governments in most of the successor states formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union are replaced through…

— Garry Kasparov

The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.

— Jack Kemp

I remember starting to read about the Soviet Union when I was eight years old; I think I was reading my father's…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

In Russia, the people have been brought up tough. It used to be the Soviet Union. The thing everybody thinks of when…

— Artem Lobov

The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time…

— Barbara Amiel

Soviet rocket troops possess enough equipment to be able, if need be, to sweep any aggressor from the face of the earth…

— Sergey Biryuzov

When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Every man must be made to realize that further retreat is impossible. He must realize with his mind and heart that this…

— Leonid Brezhnev

I spent the '80s in the Soviet Union and when I came to America it was '89 and I was in an…

— Regina Spektor

“By the mid-nineteen-sixties, the Soviet state was no longer promising its citizens a utopian Communist future. Under Brezhnev, the state “stopped working…

— Anonymous

One of the most violent attacks on the Church in the Soviet Union was under Kruschev when, during a period of economic…

— George Pattison

Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that…

— Barack Obama

Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50…

— Boris Johnson

The Kennedy Administration's public pronouncements on the matter suggested that the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Castro's Cuba would represent an…

— John F. Kennedy

The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand…

— Leon Trotsky

How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation…

— Vanessa Redgrave

One ironic thing is that although (the Soviet Union) was one of the most oppressive systems, with no respect for the individual,…

— Gabe Polsky

“[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova] In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave…

— Leon Trotsky

The list of American grievances is long: Pakistan developed nuclear weapons while promising the United States that it would not; the United…

— Husain Haqqani

The number one foreign policy goal of Russia is control of the former Soviet space.

— James Clapper

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

— Anatoly Chubais

In those years, it was easier to win the Soviet Championship than a game against 'Iron Tigran'.

— Lev Polugaevsky

Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.

— Norman Mailer