Soviet Quotes · Page 2

Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.

— Angela Merkel

Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.

— Dario Argento

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.

— Rose Wilder Lane

Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.

— Sergei Lukyanenko

In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, The Party can always find you!

— Yakov Smirnoff

I didn't believe that the Soviet Union would ever break down.

— Olga Tokarczuk

I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style government.

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.

— Vladimir Putin

It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

— Garry Kasparov

For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions.

— Vladimir Potanin

I just don't see this old idea of the Red peril, itching to take over the world. I think you can explain…

— John Anderson

It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of…

— Ronald Reagan

[In Moscow] we got through to [Soviet leaders] Brezhnev and Kosygin on the telephone. I think it was because nobody had ever…

— Ross Perot

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European…

— Dalai Lama

We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa…

— Rose Bird

They said Reagan was too dangerous. It was Reagan who ended the Soviet Union without firing a shot.

— Rush Limbaugh

Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided…

— Vladimir Putin

After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought the last Soviet generation was going to be the great hope for democracy. When that…

— Masha Gessen

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene,…

— Slavoj Zizek

President Ronald Reagan used to speak of the Soviet constitution, and he noted that it purported to grant wonderful rights of all…

— John Roberts

Was the Soviet Union reformable? I would say no. They said, 'Okay, the Soviet Union isn't working.' They would say, 'No, it's…

— Marine Le Pen

We ran up to them and they gave us hugs, cookies, and chocolate. Being so alone a hug meant more than anybody…

— Eva Mozes Kor

World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries ...…

— Joseph Stalin

In what do the activities of the Communist Parties consist? In what ways can they manifest themselves? These activities usually consist in…

— Joseph Stalin

It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big Powers who need the United Nations for their protection. It is…

— Dag Hammarskjold

It's a little hard to avoid putting both war and politics in, in that they both come into the activity, but on…

— Sergio Leone

I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is…

— Timothy Garton Ash

The fanatical Communist refuses to believe any unfavorable report or evidence about Russia, nor will he be disillusioned by seeing with his…

— Eric Hoffer

Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that…

— Winston Churchill

Gorbachev's administration was amazingly politically naïve, inexperienced and irresponsible towards the country. It was not governance but a thoughtless renunciation of power.…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in…

— Leo Tolstoy

My nation faces a fundamental challenge - survival. The regime is more threatened than ever before. My forefathers had it easy. The…

— Kim Jong-un

We should learn to tolerate nuclear weapons of North Korea just like we did the Soviet Union.

— Susan Rice

“Nothing in its life so became the Soviet Union as the leaving of it”

— Tony Judt

I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.

— Anonymous

The quality of Moscow's hired killers had slipped since the KGB's glory days.

— Alexander Litvinenko

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

— Richard M. Nixon

There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.

— Gerald R. Ford

I love 19th-century Russian literature, the avant garde, the Soviet period.

— Amor Towles

They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world.

— Ronald Reagan