Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union is an Evil Empire, and Soviet communism is the focus of evil in the modern world — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“In the Soviet Union, it's takes more courage to retreat than advance.” — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“I have seen the Future and it works. [remark after visiting the Soviet Union in 1919]” — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
To all the countries of the former Soviet Union: look at us, everything is possible. — Volodymyr Zelensky Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba as an attack by the Soviet… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The Chinese did after all decide that the Soviet Union was a greater threat than the United States and decided to come… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success,… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I graduated in 1989, and I'd focused almost entirely on the Soviet Union and communism ... so when the Berlin wall fell,… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
“It would be so nice to have a real choice, fumed Gyuri. It was like Hungary being between Germany and the Soviet… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
Growing up in the Soviet Union, ballroom dancing wasn't the coolest thing to do. But that probably made me tougher, because it… — Artem Lobov Copy Share Image
I don't think we replaced the Soviet Union with Al Qaida. I think we replaced, we should have, Soviet Union with the… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world.… — Hal Lindsey Copy Share Image
What does nonalignment mean? It means we don't belong to any military bloc and that we reserve the right to be friends… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy.… — David Hoffman Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley, "the largest legal creation of wealth in history," was built largely by unprofessional amateurs using math, sand, and the institutions… — Michael Strong Copy Share Image
Chamberlain's stubborn, fanatical insistence on giving Hitler what he wanted, his trips to Berchtesgaden and Godesberg and finally the fateful journey to… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
“This trial is a farce. The real prosecutor is not the state of Finland, but the government of one great power. The… — Risto Ryti Copy Share Image
We always seem to be surprised by events, especially by catastrophes, but also by wonderful events. Look at 1990, the year that… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Several premises shaped the Marshall Plan: that the gravest threat to western interests in Europe was not the prospect of Soviet military… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union and something called communism per se had not been the object of Washington's global attacks. There had never been… — William Blum Copy Share Image
One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That nations that have gone for equality, like Communism, have neither freedom nor justice nor equality, they've the greatest inequalities of all,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“I'm the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and receding farther and farther… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
“Call no man lucky until he is dead, but there have been moment of rare satisfaction in the often random and fragmented… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“You are claiming that the Soviet authorities began and influenced the existence of the Democratic Party [in Iran]. That is the basis… — James Aldridge Copy Share Image
“On October 26, 1963, Nikita Khrushchev contacted President Kennedy and offered to remove the missiles from Cuba in exchange for a promise… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“Khrushchev told Norman Cousins, a few months after the crisis, his reaction at the time: When I asked the military advisors if… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“The fact that no one made demands on her knowledge in her special field was lucky for Simochka. Not only she but… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Patriarchy creates coercive background conditions for women, and thus patriarchy, not capitalism, is to blame for women’s exploitation under capitalism. Women are… — Cudd/Holmstrom Copy Share Image
“The disaster at the Chernobyl plant, along with the war in Afghanistan and the cruise-missile question, is generally seen today as the… — Geert Mak Copy Share Image
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