All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened… — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
My parents called themselves progressives. The agenda was a Soviet America...the slogan of the communist party in those days was peace, jobs,… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
When the Soviet Union was dissolved, most of us didn't even have the feeling that the country was falling apart. We thought… — Vladislav Surkov Copy Share Image
In fact, we haven't ever really recalibrated our foreign policy commitments since the end of the Cold War. We still have alliances… — Kevin Gutzman 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
Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Strong countries and strong presidents talk to their adversaries. That's what Kennedy did with Khrushchev. That's what Reagan did with Gorbachev. That's… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I do think, from the other side, that George W. ush was somewhat of an innocent in his thinking about what Ronald… — Josh Brolin Copy Share Image
[Ho Chi Minh] was always conscious that conditions in China and Vietnam were not always the same. He "kowtowed" to the Chinese… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east.… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization:… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The Western world doesn't really give enough credit to the importance in history of the Soviet invasion and the subsequent war in… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
My goal was to show the history of the end of the Cold War through both sides - the U.S. side and… — David E. Hoffman Copy Share Image
There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration… The United States does notconcede… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
The first man-made satellite to orbit the earth was named Sputnik. The first living creature in space was Laika. The first rocket… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did more to liberate people by defeating the Soviet Union and freeing eastern Europe than the Obamas,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted… — Stephen Cohen Copy Share Image
What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
[Russians would like to] undermine the West and its institutions, create doubts about NATO, create doubts about the European Union, support nationalists… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
After the Cold War ended, there was an agreement between the former Soviet Union and America to convert weapons-grade nuclear materials into… — Susan Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I was a kid, and I was very excited to experience this whole new world. And everything was fun, everything from, oh,… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles,… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
If China's expansion into Africa and Russia's into Latin America and the former Soviet Union are any indication, Silicon Valley's ability to… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
The passing of Marxism-Leninism first from China and then from the Soviet Union will mean its death as a living ideology ...… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
Everybody used to talk about Chechnya as a place, in the Russian imperial and Soviet periods, that was essentially governed by extended… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
The time will come when a spacecraft carrying human beings will leave the earth and set out on a voyage to distant… — Sergei Korolev Copy Share Image
Our attainments [in space] are a major element in the competition between the Soviet system and our own . . . .… — James E. Webb Copy Share Image
![“[Ho Chi Minh] was always conscious that conditions in China and Vietnam were not always the same. He "kowtowed" to the Chinese - as he had to the Soviet Union - in order to receive their assistance, but he quietly worked to limit those forms of influence of which he did not approve (such as the…” quote by William J. Duiker](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4c8/william-j-duiker-21821_advice_ho-chi-minh-was-always-conscious-that-co_2997107.jpg)
![“The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a return to capitalist relations with a catastrophic decline of industry and culture.” quote by Leon Trotsky](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/caa/leon-trotsky-2558_capitalism_the-fall-of-the-present-bureaucratic-dic_2826981.jpg)
![“[Russians would like to] undermine the West and its institutions, create doubts about NATO, create doubts about the European Union, support nationalists on the right just as the Soviet communists supported communists on the left. Weaken the West in general and create an atmosphere in which we're…” quote by Daniel Fried](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0bc/daniel-fried-8925_atmosphere_russians-would-like-to-undermine-the-wes_660900.jpg)
![“To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United States is constantly denouncing the Soviet Union in the United Nations and elsewhere. This point will not be lost on the rest of the world, nor on our own consciences.” quote by J. William Fulbright](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/48f/j-william-fulbright-7682_bay-of-pigs_to-give-the-bay-of-pigs-invasion-of-cuba_203573.png)
![“Our attainments [in space] are a major element in the competition between the Soviet system and our own . . . . in this sense, [they] are part of the battle along the fluid front of the cold war.” quote by James E. Webb](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c5f/james-e-webb-81975_attainment_our-attainments-in-space-are-a-major-ele_2977764.jpg)
