When we went to the moon and realized that the Soviet Union had no realistic plans of getting to the moon, then… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union collapsed without a lot of people thinking it should or would, whereas for Estonia, it was something we'd been… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
One of the successes of the cause of the friends of peace is the ratification of the Franco-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to… — Andrei Platonov Copy Share Image
Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment. — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
The divine impeccability of the immortal [Soviet] State turned out not only to have suppressed individual human beings but also to have… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union at this time was being run by the Communists, a group of men fierce in their dedication to wearing… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
If commissars in Soviet Russia agreed to subordinate themselves to state power, they could at least plead fear in extenuation. Their counterparts… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I assume that our colleagues from both the United States and the European Union will proceed from current humanitarian law and ensure… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
It has not been possible to build that society. It set very high standards, because not only would life in the Soviet… — George Blake Copy Share Image
When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahideen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
In the past, foreign intervention was obviously a major problem. Foreign domination, or if not domination, interference. But that has ended. There… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Wherever you go, whether it be a college campus or the New York Times or ABC News or Venezuela or Cuba or… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
When Cuba lost their fossil fuel pipeline when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990. Overnight they had no choice, they had to… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“The Soviet state was, in fact, almost perfectly designed to make people unhappy. It denied its citizens not just hope, but also… — Oliver Bullough Copy Share Image
Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
One answer to why public interest in men's tennis has been on the wane in recent years is an essential and unpretty… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela. These countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Growing up, I didn't know very much about my heritage and the Soviet Union and things of that nature. But when I… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I think his [Reagan's] policy toward the Soviet Union was more risky than most people realize, and it was risky because of… — David E. Hoffman Copy Share Image
When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness. — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
The Army I grew up in was focused on high-intensity conflict against a peer competitor called the Soviet Union. — Mark Esper Copy Share Image
It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget. — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get… — Vagit Alekperov Copy Share Image
The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of… — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
People in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those that… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even… — Arthur Dean Copy Share Image
Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
![“The divine impeccability of the immortal [Soviet] State turned out not only to have suppressed individual human beings but also to have defended them, to have comforted them in their weakness, to have justified their insignificance. The State had taken on its own shoulders the entire weight of…” quote by Vasily Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0df/vasily-grossman-4608_chimera_the-divine-impeccability-of-the-immortal_1004610.jpg)
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