“with a singlemindedness common only to former Soviet interior-ministry troops and first-year law students” — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“He who does not regret the breakup of the Soviet Union has no heart. He who wants to revive it in its… — Michael Rank Copy Share Image
As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
It must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere. — John Updike Copy Share Image
The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations. — Mikhail Kalinin Copy Share Image
After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought the last Soviet generation was going to be the great hope for democracy. When that… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
President Ronald Reagan used to speak of the Soviet constitution, and he noted that it purported to grant wonderful rights of all… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
This power, this authority, Soviet power: they killed everybody who could make any resistance, who could explain his own way of thinking… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
“In Soviet thinking the concept of economy of force has little place. Whereas to an Englishman the taking of a sledgehammer to… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
To overcome of our enemies we must have our own socialist militarism. We must carry along with us 90 million out of… — Grigory Zinoviev Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union was, by the 1970s and 1980s, relatively stable and predictable. Putin's Russia is much more volatile. Nuclear policy is… — Anne Applebaum 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… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We bow our heads in respect for those Soviet women who displayed exceptional courage in the severe time of war. Never before… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
In the years since The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Voinovich has sharpened his satire, and Monumental Propaganda is… — Ken Kalfus 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
When we hear (as we sometimes do) that (Russia's) economic output is about half the level of a decade ago or that… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The Prime Minister, shortly after she came into office, received a sobriquet as the 'Iron Lady'. It arose in the context of… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Word spread about us in what was then the Soviet Union and we received an invite from President Brezhnev to perform there,… — Liz Mitchell Copy Share Image
I grew up a little girl in the Soviet Union playing at a small sports club. Tennis gave me my life. — Anna Kournikova Copy Share Image
We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union. — Frank Knox Copy Share Image
I believe that renunciation of the Soviet Union was an expression of the free will of the Russian people. — Vladislav Surkov Copy Share Image
The thing about the Russian secret police and the Soviet secret police is that one never leaves the secret police. Once a… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The Communist Party of China is a party that seeks peace, harmony and reconciliation, unlike the Communist Party of the former Soviet… — Zheng Bijian Copy Share Image
“Nothing like that warm and fuzzy Soviet architecture ... Pretty much as close to the Klingon home world as you're gonna get.” — Josh Gates Copy Share Image
Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
I don't think that the Soviet Union and China are accidents, aberrations; I think they follow from Marxism-Leninism. I think that Leninism… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I think you know what's new about this the Democrat Party not liking the Russians. That's a first. The Democrat Party not… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I fail to see what dangers surrounding states can see in the ideas of the Soviet people if these states are really… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that. — Karen Morley Copy Share Image
Unlike the former Soviet Union that respected the strength of West, Putin's Russia ignores talk of sanctions, claims land, and supports rebels… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training… — Anatoly Chubais 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
