When the United States worked to contain the Soviet Union during the Cold War, we went to enormous lengths to get as… — John Mearsheimer 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
Millions of Millennials and Gen Zers were never exposed to the threats of the Soviet Union; they did not live through the… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
In 2021 social media is how the world communicates, and the enforcement of arbitrary content guidelines imperil free speech. As censorship increases,… — Nicole Malliotakis Copy Share Image
The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces.… — Augusto Pinochet Copy Share Image
The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
When I used to theorize about a nuclear standoff, I didn't really have to understand what was happening inside the Soviet Union.… — Thomas Schelling Copy Share Image
Vladimir Putin is a smart guy. I don't like him, smart guy. He is going to advance the cause of Russia until… — Adam Kinzinger Copy Share Image
“In the Soviet Union, for example, shooting or jailing political opponents at first helped the Communist Party and then Josef Stalin gain… — Adam Hochschild 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
“Stalin’s first move, uncharacteristically, was to apologize to the Chinese comrades for having underestimated them: “Our opinions are not always correct,” he… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere. When you sing the line,… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
Nowadays, there are plans to separate the Baltic states from the common power system of the former Soviet Union and to integrate… — Vladimir Putin 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
It's important to remember that World War II was experienced very much as a continuity in that sense. Most of World War… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Whether the recollection is of fascist Italy in the 1920s, of Nazi Germany of the 1930s, of the Soviet Union during the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs,… — Dalai Lama 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 Russians will always find a pretext for their aggression. It was Putin who said in 2005 that the biggest geopolitical disaster… — Arseniy Yatsenyuk Copy Share Image
You would think that if neoliberals were in any way honest, after the collapse of the Soviet Union the first thing to… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“The Cold War could have produced a hot war that might have ended human life on the planet. But because the fear… — John Lewis Gaddis 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
“In school, we did not study world maps, because international geography, as a subject, had been long ago phased out of state… — Suzy Hansen Copy Share Image
In Germany, under the law everything is prohibited except that which is permitted. In France, under the law everything is permitted except… — Newton N. Minow 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
“The Soviet Union had just said dasvidaniya to itself, the Cold War had suddenly ended, the United States was embarking on the… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
The Soviet State had never made radiation something that was publicized in any way, shape, or form. In fact, the Soviet Union… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
That's what the left is always doing. They have an ideal, and they want people to conform to it. When people don't… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion… — Aldrich Ames 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
When the Soviet Union fell, optimistic scholars believed the world had shifted inexorably in the direction of free markets and liberal democracy.… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
We have our differences with Russia. And some of those differences produce conflict. But by no means is this the Soviet Union.… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The trouble with the First World War, for example, is that people think war was inevitable, but I don't agree. If you… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Now that the Cold War is over with, it's kind of hard to take the Soviet Union seriously. We won, period. We… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
Neoconservatism in all its pomp conceived - in the Project for a New American Century - that, following the collapse of the… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
We are, if territory and population be looked at together, one of the great countries of the world - a monster country,… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
When I joined the Army in the late '70s, there was a real threat from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, so… — Dick Strawbridge Copy Share Image