NATO and the USA wanted a complete victory over the Soviet Union. They wanted to sit on the throne in Europe alone. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
[In Moscow] we got through to [Soviet leaders] Brezhnev and Kosygin on the telephone. I think it was because nobody had ever… — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at… — Stephen Cohen Copy Share Image
The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s. — William Cohen Copy Share Image
We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
They said Reagan was too dangerous. It was Reagan who ended the Soviet Union without firing a shot. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Were there open gays and lesbians before the West started influencing Russia? No, there weren't. In fact, the most out person in… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
The Democrat Party of the 1980s chose the Soviet Union over Ronald Reagan, in Nicaragua, and in Moscow as well. Now, all… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Nixon tried to wrap the Soviet Union into a web of agreements that would constrain its behavior. What happened is that many… — David Hoffman Copy Share Image
I don't think we replaced the Soviet Union with Al Qaida. I think we replaced, we should have, Soviet Union with the… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world.… — Hal Lindsey Copy Share Image
There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The list of American grievances is long: Pakistan developed nuclear weapons while promising the United States that it would not; the United… — Husain Haqqani Copy Share Image
“[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova] In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One ironic thing is that although (the Soviet Union) was one of the most oppressive systems, with no respect for the individual,… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The Kennedy Administration's public pronouncements on the matter suggested that the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Castro's Cuba would represent an… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my… — George Galloway 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
Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
If the U.S. has its Vietnam... the Soviet Union has its Czechoslovakia. If the U.S. has its blacks and chicanos, then the… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
It was to be a short visit for the G-shevs. More than four days in the U.S. and Raisa's VISA card bill… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
A missile is a missile. It makes no great difference whether you are killed by a missile fired from the Soviet Union… — Elie Abel Copy Share Image
Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Japan announced that it would not comply with this declaration [ 1956]. Later on, the Soviet Union also declared that the declaration… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I am truly happy that I am able to travel from time to time to the USSR the country I love above… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
It was a very difficult time after the fall of the Soviet Union. Jobs were difficult, and you had to fight to… — Gennady Golovkin Copy Share Image
Utterly absorbing… If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take… — Jack F. Matlock, Jr Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into… — J. Stalin Copy Share Image
![“[In Moscow] we got through to [Soviet leaders] Brezhnev and Kosygin on the telephone. I think it was because nobody had ever tried to call them at home before.” quote by Ross Perot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/872/ross-perot-10054_brezhnev_in-moscow-we-got-through-to-soviet-leade_2636462.jpg)
![“[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova] In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave me the happiness of being her husband. During the almost forty years of our life together she remained an inexhaustible source of love, magnanimity, and tenderness. She…” quote by Leon Trotsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/daa/leon-trotsky-2558_atheism_letter-to-his-wife-natalia-sedova-in-add_3090545.jpg)
![“Japan announced that it would not comply with this declaration [ 1956]. Later on, the Soviet Union also declared that the declaration could not be fulfilled unilaterally, by the USSR alone.” quote by Vladimir Putin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00c/vladimir-putin-261_declaration_japan-announced-that-it-would-not-comply_1593885.jpg)
