It is a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union's most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
“The Soviet Union suffered 65 percent of all Allied military deaths, China 23 percent, Yugoslavia 3 percent, the United States and Britain… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons,… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Growing up in the Soviet Union, ballroom dancing wasn't the coolest thing to do. But that probably made me tougher, because it… — Artem Lobov Copy Share Image
I think Putin wants to recreate as much of the Soviet Union as he can through a variety of different means. He's… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
Kennedy was president for only 1,037 days, but during his short tenure, he achieved much. At the Cold War's most dangerous hour,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“Some societies tried to solve the problem by establishing a central barter system that collected products from specialist growers and manufacturers and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union has long been proposing to outlaw chemical weapons, to remove them from the arsenals of states. We are prepared… — Konstantin Chernenko Copy Share Image
In the past, foreign intervention was obviously a major problem. Foreign domination, or if not domination, interference. But that has ended. There… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
When superpower countries like the United States and the former Soviet Union contemplated moving their conflicts to outer space, there was justifiable… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
I think George H.W. Bush was confronted with some huge challenges - the invasion of Kuwait, the fall of the Berlin Wall,… — Ivo Daalder Copy Share Image
If we haven't become the Liberty Party of an undoubted future, let us take this fact: the great totalitarian regimes have died.… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
The first year I was in office, only about 800 people came out of the Soviet Union, Jews. By the third year… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“The USA and the Soviet Union each had the ability to annihilate the other. Therefore- in theory at least-neither of these growling… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“The days rolled by in the camp—they were over before you could say "knife." But the years, they never rolled by; they… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In Russia, the people have been brought up tough. It used to be the Soviet Union. The thing everybody thinks of when… — Artem Lobov Copy Share Image
“Just as the roads at Moscow's heart flow out in concentric ripples from the Kremlin, so this tension too seems to radiate… — Colin Thubron Copy Share Image
“The Soviets replaced him with a non-Jewish figure, Imre Nagy. Nagy was a Communist, but a reformer rather than a Stalinist. He… — Alex von Tunzelmann Copy Share Image
The cry of "Make America Great Again" reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of… — Alan Bersin Copy Share Image
Back in 1956, we signed a treaty and surprisingly it was ratified both by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
But on that sunlit Sunday, Alexander knew nothing, thought nothing, imagined nothing. He forgot Dimitri and war and the Soviet Union and… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“Stalin scribbled on an intelligence report predicting that Hitler would attack the Soviet Union in June 1941: 'You can send your "source"… — Ion Mihai Pacepa Copy Share Image
As for the eastern part of the former Soviet Union, the picture is rather uniform. Authoritarian structures prevail to differing extents. But… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union was, by the 1970s and 1980s, relatively stable and predictable. Putin's Russia is much more volatile. Nuclear policy is… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
