...the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant...has painfully affected the Soviet people, and shocked the international community. For the first time, we… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The Soviet system is how everything here works. It's very difficult to break the system. The system is big and inflexible, uneffective,… — Vitali Klitschko Copy Share Image
The serious problem is the education of the peasantry. The peasant economy is scattered, and the socialization of agriculture, judging by the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The triumph of the analytical movement, which formed in the '30's and '40's, was precisely what earned the Soviet masters the acclaim… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
My family left Afghanistan in 1976, well before the Communist coup and the Soviet invasion. We certainly thought we would be going… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example -… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The revolutions of my century, the 20th century - the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in… — Stephane Hessel Copy Share Image
Reagan saw the Soviet Union as evil, all right, and not only because it was responsible for the deaths of tens of… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Unidentified flying objects are a very serious subject which we must study fully. We appeal to all viewers to send us details… — Felix Ziegel Copy Share Image
When the Soviet Union was dissolved, most of us didn't even have the feeling that the country was falling apart. We thought… — Vladislav Surkov Copy Share Image
The Western world doesn't really give enough credit to the importance in history of the Soviet invasion and the subsequent war in… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization:… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration… The United States does notconcede… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
My goal was to show the history of the end of the Cold War through both sides - the U.S. side and… — David E. Hoffman Copy Share Image
Honduras is strongly anti-Communist, maintains no diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, and has provided vital support for United States-backed rebels fighting… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
What counts is results, and there can be no doubt that the Soviet planning system has been a powerful engine for economic… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Japan cannot conquer China with America in her rear, Soviet Russia on her right and England on her left - her most… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
“In Russia it is always the future that is thought of. It is the crops next year, it is the comfort that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
My parents called themselves progressives. The agenda was a Soviet America...the slogan of the communist party in those days was peace, jobs,… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened… — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted… — Stephen Cohen Copy Share Image
What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
[Russians would like to] undermine the West and its institutions, create doubts about NATO, create doubts about the European Union, support nationalists… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
After the Cold War ended, there was an agreement between the former Soviet Union and America to convert weapons-grade nuclear materials into… — Susan Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The first man-made satellite to orbit the earth was named Sputnik. The first living creature in space was Laika. The first rocket… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did more to liberate people by defeating the Soviet Union and freeing eastern Europe than the Obamas,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
![“Reagan saw the Soviet Union as evil, all right, and not only because it was responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people but also because it was atheistic. [Vladimir] Lenin said that religious faith and communism were incompatible.” quote by Paul Kengor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/639/paul-kengor-14302_atheistic_reagan-saw-the-soviet-union-as-evil-all_2051072.jpg)
![“[Russians would like to] undermine the West and its institutions, create doubts about NATO, create doubts about the European Union, support nationalists on the right just as the Soviet communists supported communists on the left. Weaken the West in general and create an atmosphere in which we're…” quote by Daniel Fried](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0bc/daniel-fried-8925_atmosphere_russians-would-like-to-undermine-the-wes_660900.jpg)
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