Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not… — Alexander Dubcek Copy Share Image
If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
I remember starting to read about the Soviet Union when I was eight years old; I think I was reading my father's… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
We know that the governments in most of the successor states formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union are replaced through… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
You would think that if neoliberals were in any way honest, after the collapse of the Soviet Union the first thing to… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Vladimir Putin is a smart guy. I don't like him, smart guy. He is going to advance the cause of Russia until… — Adam Kinzinger Copy Share Image
Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war in Afghanistan, unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I remember as a child going to an exhibit about the Soviet Union, and every paper had this alien smell. The paper… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
“In der Fabrik hing oben am Giebel, der am höchsten in den Himmel und am tiefsten in den Hof schaute, eine Losung:… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces.… — Augusto Pinochet Copy Share Image
My nation faces a fundamental challenge - survival. The regime is more threatened than ever before. My forefathers had it easy. The… — Kim Jong-un Copy Share Image
One of the signs of the imminent Apocalypse is the "bitterness of all waters," and anyone traveling through eastern Europe, the former… — Marq de Villiers Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley, "the largest legal creation of wealth in history," was built largely by unprofessional amateurs using math, sand, and the institutions… — Michael Strong Copy Share Image
Europe is sort of like the Soviet Union in the '30s and '40s. There was an argument, is it reformable or not?… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim… — Felix Dzerzhinsky Copy Share Image
There's so many ways in which Canada and America are inextricably connected politically, economically, socially. There's no stepping away. But at the… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
[Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
In Russia, the people have been brought up tough. It used to be the Soviet Union. The thing everybody thinks of when… — Artem Lobov Copy Share Image
I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
Of course, in no case would we allow the creation of a regional union in the Balkans, directed against the Soviet Union… — Todor Zhivkov Copy Share Image
That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed -- socialism doesn't work, — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
We were extremely prescient in that we predicted the Soviet coup before it happened. That was kind of amazing. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
“Like many Eastern European gangsters, he had been an official in the state security apparatus until the Communist regime collapsed.” — Massimo Carlotto Copy Share Image
I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the… — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
In the Soviet Union, for instance, the pressure on the chess stars was immense. When Boris Spassky came home after losing that… — Liz Garbus Copy Share Image
The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development. — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I love 'The Master And Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov, which is about repression in Soviet Russia in the 1930s. — Fiona Bruce Copy Share Image
If both sides reduced their long-range missiles by 50%, SDI would be an unacceptable threat to the remaining Soviet rocket forces. — Sergey Akhromeyev Copy Share Image
Russia is actively using gas diplomacy for its expansion over the ex-Soviet space in a bid to become a regional superpower. — Lilia Shevtsova Copy Share Image
If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience. — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
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