“(In the Soviet Union, it was forbidden to celebrate Christmas. In order to keep the much beloved custom of the Christmas Tree—and… — Leo Tolstoy 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
It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control… — Sergei Ivanov Copy Share Image
We need to make it very clear to the Iranians, the same way we made it clear to the Soviet Union and… — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
Putin is not a mass murderer. But, having said that, he is a product of the KGB, and the KGB was, of… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs. — Tom Clancy 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
There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Soviet Union, no China, no Taiwan...Rivers flow unimpeded across… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
“She was tired of being used like a pump handle by all of them, the vlasti, the inheritors of the former Soviet… — Jason Matthews Copy Share Image
A great deal of the pupils time was spent going through, once again, the History of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
In Soviet times, the border was closed, so we couldn't get out of the country, and I had been reading Robinson Crusoe.… — Wladimir Klitschko Copy Share Image
“Kissinger warned about the dangers of dealing with the Soviet Union precisely at the moment that Reagan was able to achieve real… — Jacob Heilbrunn Copy Share Image
I spent the '80s in the Soviet Union and when I came to America it was '89 and I was in an… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
European peace movement felt that the deployment of these missiles on European soil, on German soil would be a very great danger… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
During the '80s, those you would call the young philosophers of France, such as Bernard-Henri Lévy and [André ] Gluxman, pointed out… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
“At every historical conjuncture, the present is not only present, it also encompasses a perspective on the past immanent to it—after the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the Soviet Union under the rule of Joseph Stalin, prosperous farmers were portrayed on propaganda posters as pigs—a dehumanization that in… — Timothy Snyder 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
In short, Israel is the measure of our failings and our incompetence. We have waited for a great leader for years, but… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
“Those who have been forced to study 'dialectical materialism', the strange concoction that was supposed to form the philosophical foundation of Marxism… — Eugene V. Koonin Copy Share Image
“While the Soviets simply arrested and deported some of the scientists – typically taking their families along to serve both as hostages… — Charles River Editors 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
I think his [Reagan's] policy toward the Soviet Union was more risky than most people realize, and it was risky because of… — David E. Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying… — Elena Gorokhova Copy Share Image
When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
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