If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the… — Mary Landrieu Copy Share Image
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The Cold War philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which prevented the former Soviet Union and the United States from using the… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
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Soviet mathematics was particularly good in the second half of the 20th century, basically because of the arms race, because the Soviet… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
In the late 1980s, Soviets were allowed to keep the wealth they created by raising vegetables on their garden plots. Although these… — Mary Ruwart Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
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“Prvo što me zapanjilo kad smo došli u Sovjetski Savez bilo je to što nam je na ulici svaki čas prilazio neko… — Vlado Dapčević Copy Share Image
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The thing that should most concern us is a shift in American foreign policy. We have had a bipartisan belief in American… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
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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
Russia can fall apart. It's not because of the oil prices ... It's because what sticks a country together is a common… — Ilya Ponomarev Copy Share Image
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We who are members of the Communist Party repudiate the exclusive identification of democracy with capitalism. We declare that democracy can be… — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Copy Share Image
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The Soviet Union was a partial check on capitalist looting in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. However, with the Soviet collapse,… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
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I was a kid, and I was very excited to experience this whole new world. And everything was fun, everything from, oh,… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
The passing of Marxism-Leninism first from China and then from the Soviet Union will mean its death as a living ideology ...… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
If China's expansion into Africa and Russia's into Latin America and the former Soviet Union are any indication, Silicon Valley's ability to… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
My own kids were with me in Berlin when Germany was reunited, and they were with me in Moscow when the Soviet… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
It was probably one of the things that gave me a sense of possibility and allowed for me to see beyond the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
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Reagan won the Cold War by first restoring America's economy and military and then staring down an economically weakened Soviet Union. He… — Kathleen Troia McFarland 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
In 1980 I was a red kid and no one could have said anything bad about the Soviet Union. At least this… — Lubos Motl Copy Share Image
An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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For a professional writer in the Soviet Union, it works this way. First, you have to have something to say - that's… — Anatoly Rybakov Copy Share Image
I don't worry about superpower confrontation. You know, I lived through the Cold War days, and where everybody was worried about a… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
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The United States will rightfully go on deploring human rights excesses in the Soviet Union. And it is hardly likely Americans will… — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
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