I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy. — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
The fall of the Berlin Wall really demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a bad system, and what… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
The most cost-effective move we could make in defense spending would be to shift the focus of CIA operations, giving this agency… — John P. Wheeler III Copy Share Image
My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player. — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more… — Richard Lugar Copy Share Image
I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We had a dog who was named Pushinka, who was given to my father by a Soviet official. And we trained that… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Women are the most denigrated social group in the Soviet Union. The idea of women's emancipation is only a slogan in -… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
With respect to the situation in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, in both countries the Soviet Union had been working hard… — Paul Nitze Copy Share Image
They [the Soviets] intend...to induce the Americans to adopt their own 'restructuring' and convergence of the Soviet and American systems using to… — Anatoliy Golitsyn Copy Share Image
What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
In the years since The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Voinovich has sharpened his satire, and Monumental Propaganda is… — Ken Kalfus Copy Share Image
The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each against all.… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
We bow our heads in respect for those Soviet women who displayed exceptional courage in the severe time of war. Never before… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and… — Jonah Goldberg 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
Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union - and we know how successful that was. — Virginia Foxx 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
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
Soviet moviegoers gazed enviously on the jalopy that took the Joads from Oklahoma to California. The message Russians took from 'The Grapes… — Richard Corliss 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
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
“Girl Tractorist: As the poet Mayakovsky said: "The home of the Soviet people shall be the home of Reason"!” — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control… — Sergei Ivanov Copy Share Image
American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
The Communist Party and the Soviet Government display constant concern to strengthen the country's defensive might and raise the combat readiness of… — Andrei Grechko Copy Share Image
Putin is not a mass murderer. But, having said that, he is a product of the KGB, and the KGB was, of… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central… — Alexander Dubcek Copy Share Image
There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
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