The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“I have seen the Future and it works. [remark after visiting the Soviet Union in 1919]” — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union. — Alexander Haig 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
“Both the United States and the Soviet Union had been born in revolution. Both embraced ideologies with global aspirations: what worked at… — John Lewis Gaddis 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
When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't… — Jeane Kirkpatrick 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
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
The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and… — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
I am a citizen of the Soviet Union and I think sharp measures need to be taken against anti-Soviet forces that are… — Konstantin Rokossovsky Copy Share Image
During the Cold War, tensions between the West and the Soviet Union affected virtually all countries worldwide. As a result, throughout Latin… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
Since 9/11 the United States has been followed by countries with bad records, such as the former Soviet Union countries, into erosions… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
When the United States worked to contain the Soviet Union during the Cold War, we went to enormous lengths to get as… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
“The USA, the Soviet Union and the GDR want to raise the Titanic,’ he says, lifting his eyebrows. ‘The USA wants the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am not arguing that the Soviet Union did not present a threat to the security of the United States. I am… — James McCartney Copy Share Image
Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In Soviet times, the border was closed, so we couldn't get out of the country, and I had been reading Robinson Crusoe.… — Wladimir Klitschko Copy Share Image
John Kerry and the other Democratic leaders are on the wrong side of history, as they were during the Reagan presidency. If… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
“At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for having done something. They imprisoned and executed… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Every night from six until twelve the street cars and buses of Magnitogorsk were crowded with adult students hurrying to and from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Back in the 1970s, dissidents in the Soviet Union were often hospitalized in mental institutions and given drugs similar to the ones… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“World War II did more than usher in unparalleled prosperity for the United States. It transformed America's foreign relations. The war devastated… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
National Defense A strong USA defense brought down the Soviet Union. It was Ronald Reagan - first in a speech at Notre… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“On October 26, 1963, Nikita Khrushchev contacted President Kennedy and offered to remove the missiles from Cuba in exchange for a promise… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“You are claiming that the Soviet authorities began and influenced the existence of the Democratic Party [in Iran]. That is the basis… — James Aldridge Copy Share Image
“Consider this: in February of 1966, the Soviet Union soft-landed a space probe on the moon. Humanity has been launching programs ever… — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
“The disaster at the Chernobyl plant, along with the war in Afghanistan and the cruise-missile question, is generally seen today as the… — Geert Mak Copy Share Image
“The fact that no one made demands on her knowledge in her special field was lucky for Simochka. Not only she but… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Khrushchev told Norman Cousins, a few months after the crisis, his reaction at the time: When I asked the military advisors if… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“In the absence of expert [senior military] advice, we have seen each successive administration fail in the business of strategy - yielding… — Edward Luttwak Copy Share Image
“How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
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