25 million of Russian people suddenly turned out to be outside the borders of the Russian Federation. They used to live in… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
I am certain that my family - my grandmother, mother and myself - had a credit score of zero when we arrived… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
Nowadays, there are plans to separate the Baltic states from the common power system of the former Soviet Union and to integrate… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
In Iraq, until before the war, the women were scientists, museum directors, doctors. I'm not valourising Saddam Hussein or the Soviet occupation… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd see the day when the U.S. government could listen in on phone conversations or read private mail without… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that one of the casualties of the general suspicion and mistrust that permeated the old Soviet Union was… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
There is also this great sense of triumphalism, that just as we defeated the Soviet Union, we can do this. And out… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or… — Sara Paretsky 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
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
People do forget there is still a lot of nostalgia in Russia for the Soviet Union. — Clarissa Ward Copy Share Image
Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“Over the years I have had much occasion to ponder this word, the intelligentsia . We are all very fond of including… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union. — Alexander Haig 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
In Turkey it was always 1952, in Malaysia 1937; Afghanistan was 1910 and Bolivia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the… — Paul Theroux 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
Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union. — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, everyone in America assumed that there would be wars to follow -… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
“It is quite unfathomable why the EU leadership fails to anticipate these potentially catastrophic possibilities, and fails to respond to popular concerns… — Byron M. Roth Copy Share Image
In the '80s, we were living in the U.S.S.R., where anti-Semitism was a deeply ingrained part of the culture. Being a Jewish… — Milana Vayntrub Copy Share Image
“And when the Soviet Union was collapsing in late 1991, Dick wanted to see the dismantlement not only of the Soviet Union… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
