“Cold War. China, though technically an ally of the Soviet Union, was in quest of maneuvering” — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
“I hated life in the Soviet Union. You had to pretend something you didn't feel.” — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
They said Reagan was too dangerous. It was Reagan who ended the Soviet Union without firing a shot. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union. — Heinrich Boll 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
Nothing unites a group more than a common enemy, be it the Soviet Union or Nasty Nick from 'Big Brother.' — Josh Widdicombe Copy Share Image
“the President was deciding, for the U.S., the Soviet Union, Turkey, NATO, and really for all mankind….” — Robert F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Word spread about us in what was then the Soviet Union and we received an invite from President Brezhnev to perform there,… — Liz Mitchell Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the… — George Will Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that. — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
So seven new countries, three of them formerly part of the Soviet Union, and the others part of the Warsaw Pact, will… — Lord Robertson 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 you read about the end of the Soviet Union, it's always about the "death of socialism." They never say "the death… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence… — A. M. Rosenthal Copy Share Image
All the Baltic countries have been steadfast in support of allies of the United States since they gained their independence following the… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
The mythology of the Reagan presidency is that he induced the collapse of the Soviet Union by luring it into unsustainable military… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I don't believe in binational states. There are wonderful examples of this, prosperous multinational states: Switzerland, Switzerland and Switzerland. Everywhere else -… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s. This was… — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
When you look at my life, you can go back to the late 1930s, what I saw was, first of all, Hitler,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
We had a world dominated by the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the Americans on the other hand. They called… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I do think, from the other side, that George W. ush was somewhat of an innocent in his thinking about what Ronald… — Josh Brolin Copy Share Image
In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“World War II, alternately known as the Second World War, began with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 and… — Merriam Press Copy Share Image
When we hear (as we sometimes do) that (Russia's) economic output is about half the level of a decade ago or that… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
In fact, we haven't ever really recalibrated our foreign policy commitments since the end of the Cold War. We still have alliances… — Kevin Gutzman Copy Share Image
“In 1985, then-General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, cut back on nationwide vodka production and passed… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
The Prime Minister, shortly after she came into office, received a sobriquet as the 'Iron Lady'. It arose in the context of… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
“I became convinced that the advanced industrial countries, through international organizations like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Trade Organization (WTO),… — Joseph E. Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“Technological innovations that produced certain major components of the United States military cannot be understood as resulting from a qualitative arms race.… — Stephen Peter Rosen Copy Share Image
“Nationalism and socialism as actually lived and applied in the 20th century are the same thing (and in the 18th and 19th… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“If your case, as a politically repressed person, is reviewed by the Special Council, you are almost guaranteed the standard sentence: ten… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The communists didn’t release their grip until the late 1980s. Effective organisation kept them in power for eight long decades, and they… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“From the moment I bought my ticket, I had a premonition I wasn’t returning to New York anytime soon. You Know, this… — Gary Shteyngart 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
“Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine,… — Christopher Hitchens 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
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