The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany. — Oliver Tambo Copy Share Image
In the Soviet Union, you always have the feeling someone is watching you. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
If we have a thousand bamboo spears, there's nothing to worry about a war with the Soviet Union. — Sadao Araki Copy Share Image
“She was, after all, a mattress owner and understood the subtleties of life.” — Ilya Ilf Copy Share Image
“That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran? — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside… — Gianni Agnelli Copy Share Image
Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Bin Laden had come to the delusional conclusion that the United States was as weak as the Soviet Union had once been. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The Democrat Party loved the Soviet Union! The Democrat Party in the eighties and the seventies propped up the Soviet Union. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union. — Alexander Haig Copy Share Image
The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt. — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs… — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
I look at Obama, a young man, a good-looking person. That is my first impression, I feel sorry for him. He looks… — Alexander Lukashenko Copy Share Image
“Nothing did more during these years to excite such emotions than the successful launching by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
There is no way to avoid the reality that the American government in the past years has been the most spectacularly hypocrisy-driven… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
As for the eastern part of the former Soviet Union, the picture is rather uniform. Authoritarian structures prevail to differing extents. But… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
“The thoughts of a prisoner—they're not free either. They kept returning to the same things. A single idea keeps stirring. Would they… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it… — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
I was in my early 20s when Estonia joined the E.U. For a kid who'd grown up in the Soviet Union, it… — Taavet Hinrikus Copy Share Image
“Perestroika was an impossible idea on the face of it. The Party was setting out to employ its structures of command to… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Russians want to drill in the Arctic. Rex Tillerson has negotiated a multibillion-dollar deal with Exxon to do that drilling. They can't… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
I think Martin Luther King would always keep track of collective insurgencies among poor and working people. He was concerned about the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“With the launch of Sputnik 7 in 1957 the Soviet Union had scored the first victory in what would be a three–decade… — Jeffrey Richelson Copy Share Image
“Ceauşescu and his cronies dominated 20 million Romanians for four decades because they ensured three vital conditions. First, they placed loyal communist… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
There used to be the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. There used to be Soviet troops in the GDR. And we… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
One ironic thing is that although (the Soviet Union) was one of the most oppressive systems, with no respect for the individual,… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
“At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for having done something. They imprisoned and executed… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“To the Cedar Falls legalists, if God’s word could come that way 10,000 years ago, there was no reason to believe it… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“The Islamic revolution in Iran is a positive development. At the same time, the Islamic revolution of Afghanistan, sprung exclusively from spiritual… — Otto Ernst Remer Copy Share Image
“A confidential report delivered in June 1965 by Abel Aganbegyan, director of the Novobirsk Institute of Economics, highlighted the difficulties. Aganbegyan noted… — Geoffrey Hosking Copy Share Image
“Remembering is my only job and it's hard work. We are natural-born amnesiacs, hardwired to let go of the past, to release… — Greg Olear 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
“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
“So before and during the war, the Bush administration had to build up an image in people's minds of Iraq as a… — Noam Chomsky 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
