If commissars in Soviet Russia agreed to subordinate themselves to state power, they could at least plead fear in extenuation. Their counterparts… — Noam Chomsky 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
The number one foreign policy goal of Russia is control of the former Soviet space. — James Clapper Copy Share Image
If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
There also exists another alliance - at first glance a strange one, a surprising one - but if you think about it,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream. — Sergei Bubka Copy Share Image
In the midst of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Putin invaded the Republic of Georgia. Let's call it for what it… — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image
My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I think NATO is obsolete. NATO was done at a time you had the Soviet Union, which was obviously larger - much… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
1989 was such a very, very important year in Europe. The wall fell, the Soviet Union was crumbling, and so many things… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
It fell to President Harry Truman to contain Soviet expansionism. He built America's first peacetime alliances, starting in Western Europe, then in… — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs… — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
I spent the '80s in the Soviet Union and when I came to America it was '89 and I was in an… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
To most people in the UK, indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that World War II was experienced very much as a continuity in that sense. Most of World War… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
History must give the Poles the principal credit for bringing the Soviet bloc to its knees. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
To most people in the U.K., indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is… — Martin Rees 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
For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions. — Vladimir Potanin Copy Share Image