Mr. Gorbachev initiated Glasnost, Perestroika, so he was already, you know, way disenchanted with the rigid Communist ideology, and he was looking… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
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The thing people forget is that the entire world - or, at least, Europe, U.S., transatlantic, Russia, Soviet Union - that security… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
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I remember when the Cold War ended, how quickly the United States was swept by a nationalistic fervor and turned against Saddam… — Connie Zweig Copy Share Image
I remember the Soviet Union and when the Iron Curtain fell down in 1991. I was just 20 years old, and everybody… — Vitali Klitschko Copy Share Image
“Moscow State University.”4 MGU was to the USSR what Harvard is to the United States—except that in the Soviet Union there was… — William Taubman Copy Share Image
Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Communism wasn't a word that I thought of when I went to Cuba. The original Fidelistas were not Communists. They were graduate… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“ Ungratified sexuality is readily transformed into rage. "Prison explosions" are outbreaks of sadism resulting from the absence of sexual gratification. Hence,… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
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“Alexander speaks. “Anthony, I’m going to tell you something. In 1941, when I met your mother, she had turned seventeen and was… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
So far, the Far Eastern focal point of danger is the most active.It is possible, however, that the center of the menace… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
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In 'Chernobyl,' which was created and written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck, the material culture of the Soviet Union… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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“certain kinds of polities, communist party-states such as the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge,… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
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There is also this great sense of triumphalism, that just as we defeated the Soviet Union, we can do this. And out… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
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During 1989, my mother, who was exceedingly good at finding these free programs - you know, we were on welfare, just trying… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
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The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of… — Lawrence Eagleburger Copy Share Image
In Turkey it was always 1952, in Malaysia 1937; Afghanistan was 1910 and Bolivia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
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With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Marxists are coming around to seeing my views on the economy with greater perspective.… — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union attempted to export communism to the entire world. We know what came of that. Now the West is trying… — Vladimir Yakunin Copy Share Image
Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
We have, a Democrat Party once again adding to the civility of the discourse, Maxine Waters claiming that [Donald] Trump and his… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The serious problem is the education of the peasantry. The peasant economy is scattered, and the socialization of agriculture, judging by the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Five years after the Chernobyl disaster, in the summer of 1991, the last summer the Soviet Union was still in existence, I… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
![“So far, the Far Eastern focal point of danger is the most active.It is possible, however, that the center of the menace may shift to Europe. Evidence of this is provided, for instance, by [Adolf] Hitler's recent interview given to a French paper. In this interview, Hitler seems to attempt to say…” quote by Joseph Stalin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b3/joseph-stalin-1734_active_so-far-the-far-eastern-focal-point-of-da_1075539.jpg)
![“With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is our fault. But we didn't kill Russian civilians by shooting down a civilian airplane. We didn't attempt to conquer an adjacent country to ours. We didn't walk out on…” quote by Ronald Reagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ac/ronald-reagan-119_airplane_with-all-this-talk-about-the-supposed-st_2183576.jpg)
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