People do forget there is still a lot of nostalgia in Russia for the Soviet Union. — Clarissa Ward Copy Share Image
I grew up a little girl in the Soviet Union playing at a small sports club. Tennis gave me my life. — Anna Kournikova Copy Share Image
I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore. — Yakov Smirnoff Copy Share Image
The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America. — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
It is therefore not true that the mere existence of the Soviet Union is capable of assuring the victory of the revolution… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The case of Afghanistan vs. the Soviet Union is the clearest case of good against evil that I've seen in my lifetime.… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
My family fled the Soviet Union when I was three and a half years old. Upon arriving in New York City in… — Alexander Vindman Copy Share Image
So I want to thank the Pentagon, the Soviet Union and the military-industrial complex from the bottom of my heart. Without them,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
[Russians] want to bring us down to make them feel better about the failure of the Soviet Union. I don't mean bring… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“As Osama bin Laden puts it: "In this final phase of the ongoing struggle, the world of the infidels was divided between… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
“Do you know what China is?” Ogden asked. “It’s the Soviet Union on steroids. It’s Russia with a world-class economy and ten… — Matthew FitzSimmons Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state's role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Black identity since the '60s has been a totalitarian identity. It's enforced. And if you don't subscribe to the party line, then… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I have met in my life two big destroyers: Gorbachev, who destroyed the Soviet Union, and Cameron, who destroyed the United Kingdom… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
“To outsmart you they thought up work squads—but not squads like the ones outside the camps, where everyone is paid his separate… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
The original asylum process was created during the 'cold war.' In the United States Refugee Act of 1980 America was happy to… — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
When I looked into the story of Soviet hockey and its players, I realized that it has nothing to do with hockey.… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
“As is now generally admitted, a Soviet bomb would not have been achieved for several years more but for the success of… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
“Marxism in the Soviet Union had been boiled down to the understanding that people—Soviet citizens—were shaped entirely by their society and the… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
We know what we want. To us it means nothing that there is a Soviet Union somewhere in the world, for the… — Buenaventura Durruti Copy Share Image
“During the Cold War, the Soviet Union never could accomplish that because it was a resource exporter and was in competition with… — Gordon Chang Copy Share Image
“Since 1947, official American policy towards the Soviet Union had been one of containment short of war; but the same geostrategic principles… — Malcolm H. Murfett Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that one of the casualties of the general suspicion and mistrust that permeated the old Soviet Union was… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The Soviets held to the tradition of colonialism. They raped the country and killed many people. But they also built dams, electrical… — Ahmed Rashid Copy Share Image
“Consider this: in February of 1966, the Soviet Union soft-landed a space probe on the moon. Humanity has been launching programs ever… — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
“Given how carefully choreographed Mr Putin’s public appearances are, the question itself touched a nerve in Kazakhstan. The country’s single greatest uncertainty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Now we will live!” This is what the hungry little boy liked to say, as he toddled along the quiet roadside, or… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“It was quiet in the cell. Rubashov heard only the creaking of his steps on the tiles. Six and a half steps… — Arthur Koestler 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
“By the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Eisenhower’s test ban had failed, and the United States and the Soviet Union had… — Annie Jacobsen 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
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