The Russian economy is way down because of the price of oil, and because the USSR was a big chunk of it. — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The world would be better off with multiple superpowers. When Communist USSR was a superpower, the world was better off. — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology. — Simon Sebag-Montefiore Copy Share Image
There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed. — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
“I offered them Utopia, but they fought for the right to live in Hell.” — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
When the USSR collapsed, I was 11, and unlike many people, I don't miss it. — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
“The USSR, which they'd begun to renovate and improve at about the time when Tatarsky decided to change his profession, improved so… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
Japan announced that it would not comply with this declaration [ 1956]. Later on, the Soviet Union also declared that the declaration… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I am truly happy that I am able to travel from time to time to the USSR the country I love above… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Let's not forget that one poll after another clearly demonstrates that well over 50% of Russian citizens still wants both socialism and… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border of Afghanistan, I wrote to President Jimmy Carter: We now have the opportunity… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good… — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
After visits to several Communist countries (USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, East Germany, Vietnam, China, Cuba), I feel strongly that most "revolutionary" types… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union has long been proposing to outlaw chemical weapons, to remove them from the arsenals of states. We are prepared… — Konstantin Chernenko Copy Share Image
I cannot see that any rational American. . . could conceivably try to fulfill the major national purposes of the United States… — Charles Lichenstein Copy Share Image
Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being – no colour prejudice like in Mississippi, no colour… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
“the USSR, far from having engineered the April 1978 communist seizure of power in Kabul, and plotting then to send in troops… — Fred Halliday Copy Share Image
“In this respect the differences between the USA and the USSR are those of evangelical dinosaurs competing for domination on one small… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Well, let me just end with one last point to do with your question. One of the issues which has devastated a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The general economic growth of the quarter of a century that followed World War II not surprisingly created many illusions. In the… — Samir Amin Copy Share Image
“My 'morals' were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“All Nazi champions insist again and again that Marxism and Bolshevism are the quintessence of the Jewish mind, and that it is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Since its origins, socialism has meant the liberation of working people from exploitation. As the Marxist theoretician Anton Pannekoek observed, “this goal… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Deng’s judgment about the importance of strong economic growth was later validated by a series of studies of the collapse of the… — Arthur R. Kroeber Copy Share Image
“Andrei Yanuaryevich (one longs to blurt out, “Jaguaryevich”) Vyshinsky, availing himself of the most flexible dialectics (of a sort nowadays not permitted… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“show them, not in reasoning but in life itself, the joy of general union beyond the barriers set up by life itself” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In fact, we've entered a world which is arguably much more dangerous than [being] eyeball to eyeball with the USSR. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
“Truth and justice are commonly found in the personality of the paranoid delusional” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He who does not cry out the truth when he knows the truth becomes the accomplice of the liars and falsifiers.” — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
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