To all the countries of the former Soviet Union: look at us, everything is possible. — Volodymyr Zelensky Copy Share Image
Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran? — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If we have a thousand bamboo spears, there's nothing to worry about a war with the Soviet Union. — Sadao Araki Copy Share Image
“She was, after all, a mattress owner and understood the subtleties of life.” — Ilya Ilf Copy Share Image
“If political scientists couldn’t predict the downfall of the Soviet Union—perhaps the most important event in the latter half of the twentieth… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in… — Theodore C. Sorensen Copy Share Image
America has the best athletic programs. Even when the Soviet Union existed, that was Mickey Mouse compared to the U.S. — Eric Braeden Copy Share Image
In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“We forget everything. What we remember is not what actually happened, not history, but merely the hackneyed dotted line they have chosen… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Our country vanished from the map of Europe after the attack of the Soviet Union against Poland. That is our history. It… — Andrzej Duda Copy Share Image
The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“Unlike other dictators, Stalin and his satraps never made the mistake of believing themselves beloved -- on the contrary they saw plots… — Anna Reid Copy Share Image
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
Of course, the kind of support that Cuba could give us was very limited when it came to building up our army,… — Daniel Ortega Copy Share Image
I wouldn't even go into the history of the last days of the Soviet Union, the withdrawal from Europe, and what promises… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
Before there was the Soviet Union that could inflame matters. Now you have states not as powerful as the Soviet Union, but… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the second President Bush inherited a very serious terrorist threat, though not such a threat as had… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
It was thought that to rally Islam against godless communism would be doing the Soviet Union a very bad turn indeed, and… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
When great powers fade, as they inevitably must, it's normally for one of two reasons. Some powers exhaust themselves through overreach abroad,… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Here's the truth: the Soviet Union had thousands of nuclear weapons, and Iran doesn't have a single one. But when the world… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“President Nixon and Kissinger were joined for the promotion ceremony by CIA director Richard Helms and Defense Secretary Laird; all the men… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Biden likes to be candid in such settings. In 1979, on one of his first trips to the Soviet Union, he listened… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by… — Marshall Fritz 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
“They stared at each other. Every ocean, every river, every minute they had walked together was in their gaze. He said nothing… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
While public school history courses in the United States stress the horrors of the German Nazi murder of 6 million Jews and… — Jonathan Ott Copy Share Image
“Over the years I have had much occasion to ponder this word, the intelligentsia . We are all very fond of including… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The Korean Peninsula was kind of left over when the Second World War ended. Stalin and Truman each occupied a bit in… — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
“When Communism fell in 1989, the temptation for Western commentators to gloat triumphantly proved irresistible. This, it was declared, marked the end… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“I'm a religious man," he said. "I don't believe in a particular God, but even so one can have a faith, something… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“Nuclear weapons have only been used twice, both times in the war against Japan. In each case it was used by the… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“The Soviets, at least some of them, believed in what they were doing. After all, they did it themselves and recorded what… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The attachment voids experienced by immigrant children are profound. The hardworking parents are focused on supporting their families economically and, unfamiliar with… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“No society has succeeded in abolishing the distinction between ruler and ruled... to be a ruler gives one special status and, usually,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
![“It was thought that to rally Islam against godless communism would be doing the Soviet Union a very bad turn indeed, and that, in fact, transpired. In 1985, a group of mujahedeen came to Washington and was greeted by President [Ronald] Reagan, who called them "freedom fighters."” quote by Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfd/edward-said-6412_communism_it-was-thought-that-to-rally-islam-again_2599235.jpg)
