Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
In the late 1980s, Soviets were allowed to keep the wealth they created by raising vegetables on their garden plots. Although these… — Mary Ruwart Copy Share Image
Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
But on that sunlit Sunday, Alexander knew nothing, thought nothing, imagined nothing. He forgot Dimitri and war and the Soviet Union and… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union wasn't so closed - it wasn't North Korea. It was a practical system. People were creative and industrious, so… — Jaak Kilmi Copy Share Image
KGB was inseparable part of the Soviet Union and the whole structure of the Soviet society. We believe that the achievements of… — Vladimir Semichastny Copy Share Image
Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union tried to sell a set of ideas, very left wing, and focus on so-called peace. Vladimir Putin doesn't care… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Once the Eastern Bloc collapsed, what I call 'historical spontaneity' prevailed and the countries that were subject to Soviet control naturally gravitated… — Zbigniew Brzezinski 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
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
Ukraine is a vital link for Europe: our energy transportation networks; our location between the European Union and Eurasia. We're the melting… — Yulia Tymoshenko Copy Share Image
Reagan won the Cold War by first restoring America's economy and military and then staring down an economically weakened Soviet Union. He… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
The Russians as a people had no point of conflict with the Germans; the conflict came from their respective imperialistic policies. When… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
The Constitution I uphold and defend is the one I carry in my pocket all the time, the U.S. Constitution. I don't… — Paul Broun Copy Share Image
The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with… — Yulia Tymoshenko Copy Share Image
I admit that I do not recall the speeches of Comrades [Earl] Browder and [Samuel] Darcy. I do not even recall of… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
That which distinguishes the Soviet system both from other national systems and from the progressive schools of other countries is the conscious… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When you believe in what you are doing, when you are seeking justice for the killing of Daniel Pearl, when you want… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
My own kids were with me in Berlin when Germany was reunited, and they were with me in Moscow when the Soviet… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
In China, Vietnam, Russia and several former Soviet states, the dominant social networks are run by local companies whose relationship with the… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Of all the many memoirs by former Soviet officials, Palazchenko's is among the best written and also the most objective. Even his… — Jack F. Matlock, Jr Copy Share Image
Our problem was that in the American approach to Soviet affairs policy has oscillated between people who take an essentially psychological approach… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in peace, tranquility.… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
I remember when the Cold War ended, how quickly the United States was swept by a nationalistic fervor and turned against Saddam… — Connie Zweig Copy Share Image
The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of the whole policy of peaceful co-existence was to make progress on the basic goal laid down by Lenin… — Paul Nitze Copy Share Image
When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In 1980 I was a red kid and no one could have said anything bad about the Soviet Union. At least this… — Lubos Motl Copy Share Image
There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
For a professional writer in the Soviet Union, it works this way. First, you have to have something to say - that's… — Anatoly Rybakov Copy Share Image
But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile… — David Kay Copy Share Image
Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
I don't worry about superpower confrontation. You know, I lived through the Cold War days, and where everybody was worried about a… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Mr. Gorbachev initiated Glasnost, Perestroika, so he was already, you know, way disenchanted with the rigid Communist ideology, and he was looking… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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