[Russians] want to bring us down to make them feel better about the failure of the Soviet Union. I don't mean bring… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
After the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside… — Gianni Agnelli Copy Share Image
As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and… — George Soros Copy Share Image
It is now well-known that the Taliban's creation was facilitated by the CIA and the ISI as part of the 1980s anti-Soviet… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I remember my time growing up. It was a little bit difficult because the Soviet Union was broken. — Gennady Golovkin Copy Share Image
“[I]n the interests of our common tasks, we must sometimes overlook their stupidities,” one Soviet official explained in 1973.” — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
We still have many shortcomings and failures to fulfill the Party's demands, especially as regards the liquidation in some of our people… — Filipp Golikov Copy Share Image
If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn't be sleeping in this house tonight. (When asked… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If surrender could have been brought about in May, 1945, or even in June or July, before the entrance of Soviet Russia… — Joseph Grew Copy Share Image
[2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
Every man must be made to realize that further retreat is impossible. He must realize with his mind and heart that this… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Soviet rocket troops possess enough equipment to be able, if need be, to sweep any aggressor from the face of the earth… — Sergey Biryuzov Copy Share Image
The Bush administration continues to coddle China, despite its continuing crackdown on democratic reform, its brutal subjugation of Tibet, its irresponsible export… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Russia, despite its heavy flirtation with capitalism and some quite unsavory oligarchs, is still building its foreign policy on the Soviet ideals… — Andre Vltchek 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
The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way… — Anatoliy Golitsyn Copy Share Image
One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for… — Alan Bock Copy Share Image
In short, Israel is the measure of our failings and our incompetence. We have waited for a great leader for years, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
1989 was such a very, very important year in Europe. The wall fell, the Soviet Union was crumbling, and so many things… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In the fall of 1963, in Leningrad, in what was then the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the young poet Dmitry Bobyshev… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture... There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at… — Anastas Mikoyan Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors. — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
Of course, Soviet people would like to see the face of surrounding states changed, but that is the business of the surrounding… — J. Stalin Copy Share Image
It is therefore not true that the mere existence of the Soviet Union is capable of assuring the victory of the revolution… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success,… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I graduated in 1989, and I'd focused almost entirely on the Soviet Union and communism ... so when the Berlin wall fell,… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
The Chinese did after all decide that the Soviet Union was a greater threat than the United States and decided to come… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
Activists from the Middle East to Asia to the former Soviet states have all been telling me that they suffer from increasingly… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Los Angeles County government is a "Soviet-style system," with too many people only sort of in charge and no person sufficiently at… — Zev Yaroslavsky Copy Share Image
Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
![“[Russians] want to bring us down to make them feel better about the failure of the Soviet Union. I don't mean bring us down as in collapse, but bring us down a notch in a big way.” quote by Daniel Fried](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1aa/daniel-fried-8925_bigs_russians-want-to-bring-us-down-to-make-t_348977.jpg)
![“[I]n the interests of our common tasks, we must sometimes overlook their stupidities,” one Soviet official explained in 1973.” quote by John Lewis Gaddis](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7aa/john-lewis-gaddis-16949_quote_i-n-the-interests-of-our-common-tasks-we_1337253.jpg)
![“If surrender could have been brought about in May, 1945, or even in June or July, before the entrance of Soviet Russia into the [Pacific] war and the use of the atomic bomb, the world would have been the gainer.” quote by Joseph Grew](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/14d/joseph-grew-90305_atomic-bomb_if-surrender-could-have-been-brought-abo_687925.png)
![“[2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this has been waiting to be told, and I think it's a fresh look at the whole earth-shattering business of the collapse of the Soviet Union.” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/36a/steven-knight-2205_business_2015-it-s-a-time-that-there-s-a-clash-of_2542880.jpg)
![“Russia, despite its heavy flirtation with capitalism and some quite unsavory oligarchs, is still building its foreign policy on the Soviet ideals of internationalism, solidarity and logic. And even domestically, President [Vladin]Putin is slowly, step-by-step, restoring many important Soviet…” quote by Andre Vltchek](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8db/andre-vltchek-5249_achievement_russia-despite-its-heavy-flirtation-with_3136018.jpg)
