“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
The freedoms we have in Russia are just leftovers. Freedom of travel, which was completely nonexistent in the Soviet Union; artistic freedom… — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
Word spread about us in what was then the Soviet Union and we received an invite from President Brezhnev to perform there,… — Liz Mitchell 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
“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
“During the Second World War 70,000 Jews were murdered in Latvia, 30,000 of them by summer 1941. In Lithuania, almost all of… — Geert Mak Copy Share Image
“No society has succeeded in abolishing the distinction between ruler and ruled... to be a ruler gives one special status and, usually,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Why were the Europeans bothered about the Soviet Union at all? It was nothing to do with us. China had nothing to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
America has the best athletic programs. Even when the Soviet Union existed, that was Mickey Mouse compared to the U.S. — Eric Braeden Copy Share Image
“The organization of the camps in the east revealed a contempt for life, the life of Slavs and Asians and Jews anyway,… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
When the Soviet Union fell, optimistic scholars believed the world had shifted inexorably in the direction of free markets and liberal democracy.… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
“So stagnant was life in the Soviet Union then that even a sclerotic socialist system like East Germany’s seemed prosperous by comparison,” — Steven Lee Myers Copy Share Image
The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of… — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
“Had he won the battle of Stalingrad, he would have been sitting there, too; for any war against our Soviet Union must… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“I'm the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and receding farther and farther… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
A great deal of the pupils time was spent going through, once again, the History of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
When I was a kid trying to communicate with family in the Soviet Union, it was very difficult. You had to go… — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted… — Stephen Cohen Copy Share Image
I remember my time growing up. It was a little bit difficult because the Soviet Union was broken. — Gennady Golovkin Copy Share Image
