After Stalin died, the Soviet Union began inching toward the world again. The ban on jazz was lifted. Ernest Hemingway was published;… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
People in the West tend to identify with western victims. So even when they think about the Holocaust, they really think about… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
I'm worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don't appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
When the United States worked to contain the Soviet Union during the Cold War, we went to enormous lengths to get as… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
The countries that have risen and separated out as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union are, on the whole,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces.… — Augusto Pinochet Copy Share Image
But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I grew up during the Communist time. When I was a student and I especially wanted to play rock, that was a… — Albert Kuvezin Copy Share Image
As I came through medical school, it was very exciting because physicians were reaching out to each other, between the U.S. and… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Socialism's failure in the former Soviet Union and in the other socialist countries stands as a clean and unquestionable warning as to… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
The cry of "Make America Great Again" reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of… — Alan Bersin Copy Share Image
If it is bin Laden, he's a very intelligent guy. He's been planning his war for a long time. I remember the… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
For them (the peoples of the Soviet Union) We cherish the warmest paternal affection. We are well aware that not a few… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“In der Fabrik hing oben am Giebel, der am höchsten in den Himmel und am tiefsten in den Hof schaute, eine Losung:… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
When I used to theorize about a nuclear standoff, I didn't really have to understand what was happening inside the Soviet Union.… — Thomas Schelling Copy Share Image
Vladimir Putin is a smart guy. I don't like him, smart guy. He is going to advance the cause of Russia until… — Adam Kinzinger Copy Share Image
Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war in Afghanistan, unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I remember as a child going to an exhibit about the Soviet Union, and every paper had this alien smell. The paper… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
The Russians will always find a pretext for their aggression. It was Putin who said in 2005 that the biggest geopolitical disaster… — Arseniy Yatsenyuk Copy Share Image
To most people in the UK, indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
You would think that if neoliberals were in any way honest, after the collapse of the Soviet Union the first thing to… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and… — Chaim Weizmann Copy Share Image
We still have many shortcomings and failures to fulfill the Party's demands, especially as regards the liquidation in some of our people… — Filipp Golikov Copy Share Image
If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn't be sleeping in this house tonight. (When asked… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
[2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
If surrender could have been brought about in May, 1945, or even in June or July, before the entrance of Soviet Russia… — Joseph Grew Copy Share Image
American strategic [nuclear] forces do not exist solely for the purpose of deterring a Soviet nuclear threat or attack against the U.S.… — Colin S. Gray Copy Share Image
In Germany, under the law everything is prohibited except that which is permitted. In France, under the law everything is permitted except… — Newton N. Minow Copy Share Image
From the days of biplanes and silk scarves, the aviator has been the archetype of masculine glamour. Aviators have personified national ideals,… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
A great deal of the pupils time was spent going through, once again, the History of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
“For a nation that struggled to manufacture decent elevators and shoes, in a system in which wool shirts were not necessarily wool,… — C.J. Chivers Copy Share Image
![“[2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this has been waiting to be told, and I think it's a fresh look at the whole earth-shattering business of the collapse of the Soviet Union.” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36a/steven-knight-2205_business_2015-it-s-a-time-that-there-s-a-clash-of_2542880.jpg)
![“If surrender could have been brought about in May, 1945, or even in June or July, before the entrance of Soviet Russia into the [Pacific] war and the use of the atomic bomb, the world would have been the gainer.” quote by Joseph Grew](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14d/joseph-grew-90305_atomic-bomb_if-surrender-could-have-been-brought-abo_687925.png)
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