The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“The ability to discuss things was still the most highly valued commodity in the Soviet Union.” — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom. — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies. — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
There used to be a lot more politics in the Olympics, when the Soviet Bloc committed a lot of resources for propaganda… — Jim Courier Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan reignited the American economy, rebuilt the Military, bankrupted the Soviet Union and defeated Soviet Communism. I will do the same… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them.… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace. — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union was designed for Muscovite rule, not for division into independent republics. Yet the latter is exactly what happened in… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
If you go through all the structures and features of this emerging European monster you will notice that it more and more… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that… — Pierre Laval Copy Share Image
I assume that our colleagues from both the United States and the European Union will proceed from current humanitarian law and ensure… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
If commissars in Soviet Russia agreed to subordinate themselves to state power, they could at least plead fear in extenuation. Their counterparts… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It has not been possible to build that society. It set very high standards, because not only would life in the Soviet… — George Blake Copy Share Image
As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was… — Alexander Haig Copy Share Image
During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The divine impeccability of the immortal [Soviet] State turned out not only to have suppressed individual human beings but also to have… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
Free enterprise democracy has proven the best system by far for maximizing freedom, prosperity, and happiness. Dictatorship, Soviet style communism, and hereditary… — James Stone Copy Share Image
Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The International Brigade was not formed to protect freedom and democracy. It was founded as a tool of of the Comintern, to… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
“Perestroika was an impossible idea on the face of it. The Party was setting out to employ its structures of command to… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Russians want to drill in the Arctic. Rex Tillerson has negotiated a multibillion-dollar deal with Exxon to do that drilling. They can't… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that one of the casualties of the general suspicion and mistrust that permeated the old Soviet Union was… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
We know what we want. To us it means nothing that there is a Soviet Union somewhere in the world, for the… — Buenaventura Durruti Copy Share Image
National Defense A strong USA defense brought down the Soviet Union. It was Ronald Reagan - first in a speech at Notre… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The Soviets held to the tradition of colonialism. They raped the country and killed many people. But they also built dams, electrical… — Ahmed Rashid Copy Share Image
History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union. — Henry L. Stimson Copy Share Image
Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then. — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
I would not sacrifice myself for a system like the Soviet system to be established in Greece. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives. — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
“I hated life in the Soviet Union. You had to pretend something you didn't feel.” — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
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