I love 19th-century Russian literature, the avant garde, the Soviet period. — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union's termination, which brought to an end the bipolar world, ushered in an era of U.S. hegemony. Hegemony, however, should… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
News for the godless: religion is inescapable. there has never been a human society without some form of worship. And don't point… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
It's a war to control our children. State control through drugs, just as practiced in the Soviet Union. With Hillary [Clinton] and… — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget. — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment. — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
If you read the literature of Soviet Communism, you see a dogma that's chilling. On the other hand, if you read the… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Zhukov was the most successful commander of World War II, who fell from grace under Khrushchev, but never lost his place in… — Georgy Zhukov Copy Share Image
The rout of fascism, in which the Soviet Union played the decisive role, generated a mighty tide of socio-political changes which swept… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
I think the big tragedy of the Cuban Revolution was that it became dependent on the Soviet Union, and it became dependent… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Putin probably, almost certainly, thinks that one of the great disasters of the 20th century was the demise of the Soviet Union.… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
...the West's main weakness remains unchanged: it cannot grasp the fact that it is facing an acceleration in the unfolding of Soviet… — Anatoliy Golitsyn Copy Share Image
I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy. — Lee Harvey Oswald Copy Share Image
In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true.… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
People in the West tend to identify with western victims. So even when they think about the Holocaust, they really think about… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
The recent past is full of diverse examples of writers - Mahfouz in Egypt, Pamuk in Turkey, and more interestingly, Pasternak in… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives. — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
This document will play an important role in protecting the strategic interests of Russia and Uzbekistan and ensuring stability and security in… — Islom Karimov Copy Share Image
It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
We have a freer world because of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the changes in China. Those two have been… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
