“World War II, alternately known as the Second World War, began with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 and… — Merriam Press Copy Share Image
When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt. — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union. — James Fallows Copy Share Image
“The empirical evidence has been much harder on socialism. Economically, in practice the capitalist nations are increasingly productive and prosperous, with no… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I was a kid, and I was very excited to experience this whole new world. And everything was fun, everything from, oh,… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
“During the war, Monod had joined the Communist Party as a matter of expediency, so that he could join the FTP. But… — Sean B. Carroll Copy Share Image
Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere. When you sing the line,… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
“At that time the authorities used to love to set up their concentration camps in former monasteries: they were enclosed by strong… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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
“To the Cedar Falls legalists, if God’s word could come that way 10,000 years ago, there was no reason to believe it… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“But the heart and soul of the Other Dream Team, as some called Lithuania, was the mustachioed guard Sarunas Marciulionis. It was… — Anonymous 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
“One of the fables we live by is that some day the killing will stop. If only we rid ourselves of Chinese,… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
If the Russian word "perestroika" has easily entered the international lexicon, this is due to more than just interest in what is… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“The AK-47 was christened with blood not as a tool for liberation or to defend the Soviet Union from invaders. It made… — C.J. Chivers Copy Share Image
“It amazes me still to this day how quickly the empire fell to pieces. One day the people are kissing the ground… — Robert Alexander Copy Share Image
Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of… — Lawrence Eagleburger Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists,… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
