There used to be a lot more politics in the Olympics, when the Soviet Bloc committed a lot of resources for propaganda… — Jim Courier Copy Share Image
Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with… — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
I want to destroy the EU, not Europe! I believe in a Europe of nation-states. I believe in Airbus and Ariane, in… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
Every infantryman in the Soviet Army carries with him a small spade. When he is given the order to halt he immediately… — Viktor Suvorov Copy Share Image
Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Happy hour is slightly different in the Soviet Union. There are no ice cubes or orange-peel twists in the vodka. Also, it… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics. — George Packer Copy Share Image
“In Soviet thinking the concept of economy of force has little place. Whereas to an Englishman the taking of a sledgehammer to… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
This power, this authority, Soviet power: they killed everybody who could make any resistance, who could explain his own way of thinking… — Vladimir Bukovsky 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
I've never been to the Soviet Union and the main reason for that is I was warned several times by people from… — Brian Crozier Copy Share Image
To overcome of our enemies we must have our own socialist militarism. We must carry along with us 90 million out of… — Grigory Zinoviev 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
Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on,… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
It is a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union's most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
“Her hair was totally Indian Woolworth perfume clerk. You know - sweet but dumb - she'll marry her way out of the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
My parents, who were Communists, always pretended to be American patriots. You can always convince yourself you are: 'I love America, I… — David Horowitz 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
Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its… — Anonymous 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
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
We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have… — Anna Politkovskaya Copy Share Image
It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace. — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If you go through all the structures and features of this emerging European monster you will notice that it more and more… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union was designed for Muscovite rule, not for division into independent republics. Yet the latter is exactly what happened in… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that… — Pierre Laval Copy Share Image
No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan reignited the American economy, rebuilt the Military, bankrupted the Soviet Union and defeated Soviet Communism. I will do the same… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them.… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison. — Anatoly Chubais 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
First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
The Sandinistas are a tough bunch of guys, with a fabulous amount of Soviet Bloc equipment and Soviet Bloc advisers. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The Soviet experience was much worse than experts in the West had thought. That discovery had a tremendous impact both on the… — Milton Friedman 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
