We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and… — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a significant amount of information… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
I remember starting to read about the Soviet Union when I was eight years old; I think I was reading my father's… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
We know that the governments in most of the successor states formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union are replaced through… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't… — Jeane Kirkpatrick 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
“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
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
“Whenever the communists are under fire, it [the term "red-baiter"] has served to divert attention from the subject matter to futile discussion… — Eugene Lyons Copy Share Image
I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
My first-ever game was at the 1966 World Cup. The old man was a bricklayer's labourer, on a job in the north-east… — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union was, by the 1970s and 1980s, relatively stable and predictable. Putin's Russia is much more volatile. Nuclear policy is… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I belong to a generation that came of age listening to news of the collapse of the Communist dicatorships and never felt… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“Within a few short, dramatic months Afghanistan had been catapulted into the centre of the intensified Cold War between the Soviet Union… — Ahmed Rashid Copy Share Image
The International Brigade was not formed to protect freedom and democracy. It was founded as a tool of of the Comintern, to… — Kevin Myers 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
“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
“He smirked. “Communism? Of course not. The Soviet Union fell because communism did not understand human nature. People act in their self-interest.… — D.R. Bell Copy Share Image
“There is a law in the Archipelago that those who have been treated the most harshly and who have withstood the most… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“As it became impossible to believe in the morality of the Soviet Union, a shrinking contingent of true believers shifted their devotions,… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“One of the fables we live by is that some day the killing will stop. If only we rid ourselves of Chinese,… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“So what did Mussolini do? He founded, as he put it, the only genuinely socialist government in the world, with the possible… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“Operational inquiry has established that Danylo Shablia assisted in the espionage activities of his son, Peter Shablia, helping him organize an anti-Soviet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Well, it depends which planned economies you mean. There are lots of planned economies―the United States is a planned economy, for example.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Extractive institutions are so common in history because they have a powerful logic: they can generate some limited prosperity while at the… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“In the Soviet Union there is freedom of speech. But it's not written anywhere that one should be free after his speech.” — Sergey Grechishkin Copy Share Image
I think Putin wants to recreate as much of the Soviet Union as he can through a variety of different means. He's… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
In the Soviet Union, for instance, the pressure on the chess stars was immense. When Boris Spassky came home after losing that… — Liz Garbus Copy Share Image
In Russia, the people have been brought up tough. It used to be the Soviet Union. The thing everybody thinks of when… — Artem Lobov Copy Share Image
I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Of course, in no case would we allow the creation of a regional union in the Balkans, directed against the Soviet Union… — Todor Zhivkov Copy Share Image
Nothing in our lifetimes has been more heartening than when people of the former Soviet Union and Central Europe broke the grip… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
![“Whenever the communists are under fire, it [the term "red-baiter"] has served to divert attention from the subject matter to futile discussion of personal motives, the critic’s private life and other deliberate tricks of befuddlement.” quote by Eugene Lyons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/294/eugene-lyons-96062_communism_whenever-the-communists-are-under-fire-i_449530.jpg)
