Normally the world's most powerful political ideology, nationalism had limited influence in the Soviet Union because it was at odds with communism.… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
The rise of fascism in Europe sent most Americans home. Some black American communists who had emigrated to the Soviet Union perished… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
“The history of warfare has always been a struggle between measures and countermeasures, and so it will be with asymmetric warfare. During… — Ashton Carter Copy Share Image
But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile… — David Kay Copy Share Image
Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences. New Yorkers will remember well… — Nick Turse Copy Share Image
When you look at my life, you can go back to the late 1930s, what I saw was, first of all, Hitler,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
There were a lot of negatives, of course, but there were positives to living a life unfettered by possessions. It gave us… — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
[2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
We had in the West a very romantic vision of Russia back in 1991, when the Soviet Union died and whatever is… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
Think about it: Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Vietnam, North Korea, the former Soviet Union - they all start with the intention of leveling… — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I want to destroy the EU, not Europe! I believe in a Europe of nation-states. I believe in Airbus and Ariane, in… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace. — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
“(Please forgive us, reader. We have once more gone astray with this rightist opportunism—this concept of "guilt," and of the guilty or… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In the Soviet Union, you always have the feeling someone is watching you. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“History is made up of "moral" judgments based on politics. We condemned Lenin's acceptance of money from the Germans in 1917 but… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy… — Olga Korbut Copy Share Image
“There has been much controversy about the numbers of those imprisoned and killed at various times in the Stalin years, but the… — Archie Brown Copy Share Image
It was thought that to rally Islam against godless communism would be doing the Soviet Union a very bad turn indeed, and… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
“War reporter Lawrence Sheets’s edgy memoir evokes exactly the fatalism, confusion, and centrifugal forces that suddenly broke up the Soviet Union two… — Hugh Pope Copy Share Image
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There is no figure who had more of an influence, no person had more of an influence on the intellectuals behind the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
One of the most violent attacks on the Church in the Soviet Union was under Kruschev when, during a period of economic… — George Pattison Copy Share Image