I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy. — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
Chechnya was part of that whole wave of entities of the Soviet Union that had a very separate sense of identity, of… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
The secular socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan succeeded in bringing down the Iron Curtain by showing strength and resolutely standing up to the Soviet Union. President Trump… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the… — David Hoffman Copy Share Image
In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy.… — David Hoffman Copy Share Image
I don't think we replaced the Soviet Union with Al Qaida. I think we replaced, we should have, Soviet Union with the… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world.… — Hal Lindsey Copy Share Image
There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
While thinking when sober, our success at reaching our goals by using the First Baltic Front troops, the Memel operation, it can't… — Ivan Bagramyan Copy Share Image
In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
By the 1970s, Western sanctions had hollowed out the Soviet economy. Ultimately, however, what brought down the Soviets was their inability to… — Erin O'Toole Copy Share Image
What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene,… — Slavoj Zizek Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union, true to the Leninist principles of respect for the rights and national independence of all peoples great or small,… — Kliment Voroshilov Copy Share Image
Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There are forces more powerful and pervasive than the apparatus of war. You may chain a man, but you cannot chain his… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If your Soviet neighbor is trying to set fire to your house, you can't be worrying about the Arab down the block.… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
“Although at the time I didn’t realize this, the Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev had begun promoting ‘glasnost’ or political openness throughout… — Andrea White Copy Share Image
During the '80s, those you would call the young philosophers of France, such as Bernard-Henri Lévy and [André ] Gluxman, pointed out… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
It was life under the Soviet system - we were struggling with every big problem. Publicly, my parents had to queue up… — Jaak Kilmi Copy Share Image
After the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russian influence collapsed, and Moscow came to bitterly resent the Western interventions that… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
When the Soviet Union broke down, Georgia suffered a huge deal. Pretty much the whole of the 90's was known as 'the… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the US-Soviet antagonisms. — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“The Soviet regime robbed people not only of their ability to live freely but also of the ability to understand fully what… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
If you are asking did I support the Soviet Union, yes I did. Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
America has the best athletic programs. Even when the Soviet Union existed, that was Mickey Mouse compared to the U.S. — Eric Braeden Copy Share Image
We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in… — Theodore C. Sorensen Copy Share Image
Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Why not admit that the words separation and church do not even appear in the US Constitution, he added. Instead, they do… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
The constitution of Soviet Russia must insure equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex, creed, race, or nationality. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
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