“If the Holocaust is reduced to Auschwitz, then it can easily be forgotten that the German mass killing of Jews began in… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Operational inquiry has established that Danylo Shablia assisted in the espionage activities of his son, Peter Shablia, helping him organize an anti-Soviet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“As Osama bin Laden puts it: "In this final phase of the ongoing struggle, the world of the infidels was divided between… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
“Fred Koch’s political views were apparently shaped by his traumatic exposure to the Soviet Union. Over time, Stalin brutally purged several of… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
News for the godless: religion is inescapable. there has never been a human society without some form of worship. And don't point… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
It's a war to control our children. State control through drugs, just as practiced in the Soviet Union. With Hillary [Clinton] and… — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget. — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
“Why didn't we put Stalin on trial? I'll tell you why...In order to condemn Stalin, you'd have to condemn your friends and… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“Eisenhower was certain any war with the Soviet Union would become a nuclear war, and any nuclear war would escalate into a… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
The rout of fascism, in which the Soviet Union played the decisive role, generated a mighty tide of socio-political changes which swept… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
I think the big tragedy of the Cuban Revolution was that it became dependent on the Soviet Union, and it became dependent… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Putin probably, almost certainly, thinks that one of the great disasters of the 20th century was the demise of the Soviet Union.… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“Karl Marx got a bum rap. All he was trying to do was figure out how to take care of a whole… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true.… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
The recent past is full of diverse examples of writers - Mahfouz in Egypt, Pamuk in Turkey, and more interestingly, Pasternak in… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“The peoples of the Soviet Union, in many respects, impress me as people who can not yet afford to be honest. When… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
“Regardless of their leaders' decisions, nation-states-their bureaucratic reach augmented by the increasingly centralized orchestration of tax revenues, industrial and communications technologies, military… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
Joining the Grand Old Party seemed like a natural choice for someone like me who fled the Soviet Union as a boy… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
We have a freer world because of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the changes in China. Those two have been… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Thirteen years after the end of the Soviet Union, the American press establishment seemed eager to turn Ukraine's protested presidential election on… — Stephen Cohen Copy Share Image
“In the Soviet Union there is freedom of speech. But it's not written anywhere that one should be free after his speech.” — Sergey Grechishkin Copy Share Image
Nixon tried to wrap the Soviet Union into a web of agreements that would constrain its behavior. What happened is that many… — David Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The Soviets, at least some of them, believed in what they were doing. After all, they did it themselves and recorded what… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
