The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew… — Jose Padilha Copy Share Image
“Moscow State University.”4 MGU was to the USSR what Harvard is to the United States—except that in the Soviet Union there was… — William Taubman Copy Share Image
“The problem in Venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented, but that socialism has been faithfully implemented. From the Soviet… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you go through all the structures and features of this emerging European monster you will notice that it more and more… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
I remember as a child going to an exhibit about the Soviet Union, and every paper had this alien smell. The paper… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
The countries that have risen and separated out as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union are, on the whole,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley, "the largest legal creation of wealth in history," was built largely by unprofessional amateurs using math, sand, and the institutions… — Michael Strong Copy Share Image
“Ceauşescu and his cronies dominated 20 million Romanians for four decades because they ensured three vital conditions. First, they placed loyal communist… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest… — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
'Make America great again,' is not that different from Putin's nostalgia for the Soviet Union or tsarist Russia. — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace - not so much because of what it has done, but because of… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“Yet the interests of the international statesman may not always align with the ‘national interest’, particularly if the statesman is now also… — Stephen D. King Copy Share Image
“An interlocking set of new enemies was emerging: globalization, foreigners, multiculturalism, environmental regulation, high taxes, and the incompetent politicians who could not… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
We have, a Democrat Party once again adding to the civility of the discourse, Maxine Waters claiming that [Donald] Trump and his… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I consider myself Russian-American because I'm American by ethnicity and by passport, but I spent all my forming years over in the… — Lana Copy Share Image
When Cuba lost their fossil fuel pipeline when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990. Overnight they had no choice, they had to… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Most Americans are sympathetic to Ukraine and understand Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion is the next big step in his goal of… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I was like everyone else: afraid of getting nuked. We had drills in school - Sweden was… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
When you look around the world, every place that socialism has been implemented, it has failed miserably, destroying the economy, freedom and… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
