I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
As a great socialist power the Soviet Union is fully aware of its responsibility to the peoples for preserving and strengthening peace.… — Konstantin Chernenko Copy Share Image
“You put your back into the work. For unless you could manage to provide yourself with the means of warming up, you… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
After Stalin died, the Soviet Union began inching toward the world again. The ban on jazz was lifted. Ernest Hemingway was published;… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
[Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“Consider the blundering anarchic system of the United States the stupidity of some of its lawmakers, the violent reaction, the slowness of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“The year 1992 was the countdown year for the formation of the European single market, the regional economic entity—utopian for some, dystopian… — Katie King Copy Share Image
When the Soviet Union was dissolved, most of us didn't even have the feeling that the country was falling apart. We thought… — Vladislav Surkov Copy Share Image
“In school, we did not study world maps, because international geography, as a subject, had been long ago phased out of state… — Suzy Hansen Copy Share Image
“Well, let me just end with one last point to do with your question. One of the issues which has devastated a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The case of Afghanistan vs. the Soviet Union is the clearest case of good against evil that I've seen in my lifetime.… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon the world had ever known. Called the Tsar… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“So what did Mussolini do? He founded, as he put it, the only genuinely socialist government in the world, with the possible… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Who co-founded Google? Sergey Brin, a Russian-born Jew whose family fled anti-semitism in the Soviet Union to settle here and who considers… — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
The United States will rightfully go on deploring human rights excesses in the Soviet Union. And it is hardly likely Americans will… — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
All s, like all human beings, get many things wrong. Ronald Reagan's extraordinary achievement as of the U.S. was to succeed in… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation… — Roger Nash Baldwin Copy Share Image
After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought the last Soviet generation was going to be the great hope for democracy. When that… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
When the Soviet Union collapsed, the television businesses found it was easier to hire 16- or 18-year-olds and teach them everything from… — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
“When the West turned down Egypt's request for financial assistance to build a new dam on the Nile -- a national project… — Mohamed El-Erian Copy Share Image
Back in the days of the Soviet Union, the countries of Eastern Europe, being under the control of the USSR, would call… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
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