“Submission can be forced with brutality. In the last century alone, over 100 million humans were murdered in the name of ideology… — Erika Ilves Copy Share Image
“The power in any society is with those who get to impose the fantasy. It is no longer, as it was for… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“They stared at each other. Every ocean, every river, every minute they had walked together was in their gaze. He said nothing… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player. — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
“That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If the German people lay down their weapons, the Soviets, according to the agreement between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, would occupy all… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
When the Soviet Union broke down, Georgia suffered a huge deal. Pretty much the whole of the 90's was known as 'the… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
Think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela. These countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We have to re-invent socialism. It can’t be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
“The thoughts of a prisoner—they're not free either. They kept returning to the same things. A single idea keeps stirring. Would they… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, my parents, like the rest of America, were terrified. The Soviets had nuclear weapons… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
While public school history courses in the United States stress the horrors of the German Nazi murder of 6 million Jews and… — Jonathan Ott Copy Share Image
If we look decades ago, we know that NATO allies contributed a lot of equipment close to the border of the Soviet… — Kersti Kaljulaid Copy Share Image
As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization [in education] is… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“Cold War. China, though technically an ally of the Soviet Union, was in quest of maneuvering” — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
Europe is sort of like the Soviet Union in the '30s and '40s. There was an argument, is it reformable or not?… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big Powers who need the United Nations for their protection. It is… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“He smirked. “Communism? Of course not. The Soviet Union fell because communism did not understand human nature. People act in their self-interest.… — D.R. Bell Copy Share Image
One of the obsessions that the Soviet Union and the Eastern European communist parties had was always controlling the message - all… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“Political calculation and local suffering do not entirely explain the participation in these pogroms. Violence against Jews served to bring the Germans… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The so-called “socialism” exceeded the mangiest recommendations of Keynes! Such a regulated state capitalism, such an intervention of the state in the… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image