Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense. — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“Stalin scribbled on an intelligence report predicting that Hitler would attack the Soviet Union in June 1941: 'You can send your "source"… — Ion Mihai Pacepa Copy Share Image
Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the… — David Hoffman Copy Share Image
Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of… — Earl Browder Copy Share Image
Don't tell me you'll still be in power by then without free elections! Replyting to Nikita Khrushchev's invitation to attend his 90th… — Richard Nixon Copy Share Image
Of late, attempts have been made in the USA - at a high level and in a rather cynical form - to… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
Back in the days of the Soviet Union, the countries of Eastern Europe, being under the control of the USSR, would call… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Do you know what China is?” Ogden asked. “It’s the Soviet Union on steroids. It’s Russia with a world-class economy and ten… — Matthew FitzSimmons Copy Share Image
“Graças a Churchill, não foi a Alemanha que passou a dominar a Europa, mas sim os Estados Unidos e a Rússia. Graças… — Sebastian Haffner Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan [ cite the founders] on behalf of emphasizing the faith of our founders, of limited government, of the uniqueness and… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
“So you were dissidents? You believed in finishing the USSR?''No. It's not like that. You just speak several languages at the same… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
[Albert]Camus had denounced the gulag and Stalin's trials. Today we can see that he was right. To say that there were concentration… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
“The hide was being flayed off the still living body of the Revolution so that a new age could slip in to… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Stock ownership in the US is very highly concentrated. [Shareholder actions are] something, but it's like the old Communist Party in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Americans don't like to waste time on stupid things, for example, on the torturous process of coming up with names for their… — Ilya Ilf Copy Share Image
“The USSR model was never a serious threat to anyone's bottom line. People blow up over Germany because, for all its left-wing… — Thomas Geoghegan Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
When the history of the 20th century is finally written, one of its key features will be the wanton slaughter of more… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
I've always been creative verbally, had a flair, my teachers said - wrote great expository essays in elementary school, scribbled little poems,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“Africa had the rotten luck to gain its freedom at the height of the Cold War, which meant dozens of young nations… — Jeffrey Gettleman 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
What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and… — Alexey Leonov Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm asked about independent cinema, I think of what Fidel Castro said during the Cold War about the league of non-aligned… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
The abbreviations (e.g. NATO, UN, USSR - E.W.) denote that and only that which is institutionalized in such a way that the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
![“Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in hopes of saving it. In the end he could not.” quote by David Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/83b/david-hoffman-38227_economic_gorbachev-was-acutely-aware-of-the-ussr_2878329.jpg)
![“Ronald Reagan [ cite the founders] on behalf of emphasizing the faith of our founders, of limited government, of the uniqueness and exceptionalism of America, of a nation with a people facing another historic challenge beyond the American Revolution, and in contrasting the system of the United…” quote by Paul Kengor](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7bc/paul-kengor-14302_america_ronald-reagan-cite-the-founders-on-behal_1038882.jpg)
![“[Albert]Camus had denounced the gulag and Stalin's trials. Today we can see that he was right. To say that there were concentration camps in the USSR at the time was blasphemous, something very serious indeed. Today we think about the USSR with the camps also in mind, but before it just wasn't…” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7d9/catherine-camus-12238_camps_albert-camus-had-denounced-the-gulag-and_163819.jpg)
![“Stock ownership in the US is very highly concentrated. [Shareholder actions are] something, but it's like the old Communist Party in the USSR, it would be nice to see more protest inside the Communist Party but it's not democracy. It's not going to happen. [Shareholder actions] are a good step…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6bb/noam-chomsky-42_action_stock-ownership-in-the-us-is-very-highly_1143772.jpg)
