We should learn to tolerate nuclear weapons of North Korea just like we did the Soviet Union. — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I remember my time growing up. It was a little bit difficult because the Soviet Union was broken. — Gennady Golovkin Copy Share Image
It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy. — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
“We often like to think of World War II as a triumph of freedom over totalitarianism. We conveniently forget that the Soviet… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
In the 1960s, I would have considered China with its CPC an ideologically more dynamic country than the Soviet Union. But the… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“The days rolled by in the camp—they were over before you could say "knife." But the years, they never rolled by; they… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
“Kennedy was not perfectly sure that Khrushchev was an entirely rational being. He was not absolutely certain that the Soviet Union wouldn't… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union. — James Fallows Copy Share Image
In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true.… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Already liberals are trying to rewrite the history of the Cold War to remove Reagan from its core, to make him a… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Something wasn’t right though. That golden rule of positive psychology, hedonic adaptation, states that no matter what tragedy or good fortune befalls… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons,… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
The aggressor too should know that the preemptive use of nuclear weapons would not insure victory. With modern detection systems and the… — Dmitriy Ustinov Copy Share Image
“If the Russian people and the Russian elite remembered - viscerally, emotionally remembered - what Stalin did to the Chechens, they could… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Nixon tried to wrap the Soviet Union into a web of agreements that would constrain its behavior. What happened is that many… — David Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Lack of respect for the incompetent central government, along with language, religious, and cultural differences, will loom more and more significantly as… — Robert Goddard Copy Share Image
When you think of power, you think the state has power. When you look at it in terms of revolution, in terms… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
“Fred Koch’s political views were apparently shaped by his traumatic exposure to the Soviet Union. Over time, Stalin brutally purged several of… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Acheson then jumped into action with a dramatic and deliberately florid statement of what was later to be known as the "domino… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
The recent past is full of diverse examples of writers - Mahfouz in Egypt, Pamuk in Turkey, and more interestingly, Pasternak in… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Enrollments in American colleges tripled between 1955 and 1970, 250% in the Soviet Union, 400% in France, and more than 200% in… — John Gaddis Copy Share Image
In Iraq, until before the war, the women were scientists, museum directors, doctors. I'm not valourising Saddam Hussein or the Soviet occupation… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“There was much talk in the American press in the early eighties about the political cautiousness of a new generation of college… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The so-called “socialism” exceeded the mangiest recommendations of Keynes! Such a regulated state capitalism, such an intervention of the state in the… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
“Has Stalin understood correctly?’ asked Stalin. ‘You were on Franco’s side, you have fought against Comrade Mao, you have… saved the life… — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
“The Soviets replaced him with a non-Jewish figure, Imre Nagy. Nagy was a Communist, but a reformer rather than a Stalinist. He… — Alex von Tunzelmann Copy Share Image
“In the absence of expert [senior military] advice, we have seen each successive administration fail in the business of strategy - yielding… — Edward Luttwak Copy Share Image
“Well, let me just end with one last point to do with your question. One of the issues which has devastated a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“It is clear enough why both major propaganda systems insist upon this fantasy. Since its origins, the Soviet State has attempted to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Stalin perceived the world in stark black and white. In the same way, he divided people, nations, actions, and ideas into only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“History can familiarize, and it can warn. In the late nineteenth century, just as in the late twentieth century, the expansion of… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
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