If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and… — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a significant amount of information… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold… — Fareed Zakaria 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
The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
With respect to the situation in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, in both countries the Soviet Union had been working hard… — Paul Nitze Copy Share Image
NASA was invented as a response to Cold War steps. There are those who presumed that we went to the moon because… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If the Russian word "perestroika" has easily entered the international lexicon, this is due to more than just interest in what is… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Autocratic countries have attempted to leverage hosting the Olympics into legitimizing their stances among the global community: Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union,… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
You know, terrorism in Afghanistan had everything to do with the support for the mujahidin by Saudi Arabia and by the CIA… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
My mother was really involved with the Refusenik campaign with Soviet Union Jews. They would come and stay at our house, some… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
I came up during the cold war, and during the cold war it was always possible with the then Soviet Union -… — Ashton Carter Copy Share Image
What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“again concluded that the Soviet Union “with a high degree of confidence” could kill the president, vice president, and all fourteen remaining… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each against all.… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“I became convinced that the advanced industrial countries, through international organizations like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Trade Organization (WTO),… — Joseph E. Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“World War II, alternately known as the Second World War, began with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 and… — Merriam Press Copy Share Image
In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I do think, from the other side, that George W. ush was somewhat of an innocent in his thinking about what Ronald… — Josh Brolin 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
“Despite its disapproval of Nasser's action and the pro-Soviet direction in which he was leading Egypt, the [Eisenhower] administration saw Nasser's foreign… — John Spanier Copy Share Image
“Boom!” The thunder of a massive explosion rolled across the settlement. Maria’s sobbing came from the bedroom. Irina ran to her daughter.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the fables we live by is that some day the killing will stop. If only we rid ourselves of Chinese,… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“He smirked. “Communism? Of course not. The Soviet Union fell because communism did not understand human nature. People act in their self-interest.… — D.R. Bell Copy Share Image
“There is a law in the Archipelago that those who have been treated the most harshly and who have withstood the most… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“As it became impossible to believe in the morality of the Soviet Union, a shrinking contingent of true believers shifted their devotions,… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“micromanagement was a form of dictatorship. Just look at governments like the old Soviet Union to see that the results are a… — George Ilian Copy Share Image
In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The secular socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan succeeded in bringing down the Iron Curtain by showing strength and resolutely standing up to the Soviet Union. President Trump… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Chechnya was part of that whole wave of entities of the Soviet Union that had a very separate sense of identity, of… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
“I believe profoundly that in the struggle against Communists and their organizations [...] we cannot and should not resort to the methods… — Victor Kravchenko Copy Share Image
“He who does not regret the break-up of the Soviet Union has no heart; he who wants to revive it in its… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union. — Lee H. Hamilton 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 fall of the Berlin Wall really demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a bad system, and what… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
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