We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and… — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a significant amount of information… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances… — Pierre Laval Copy Share Image
I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines:… — Oleg Deripaska Copy Share Image
The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
I remember starting to read about the Soviet Union when I was eight years old; I think I was reading my father's… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
We know that the governments in most of the successor states formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union are replaced through… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
By the 1970s, Western sanctions had hollowed out the Soviet economy. Ultimately, however, what brought down the Soviets was their inability to… — Erin O'Toole Copy Share Image
While thinking when sober, our success at reaching our goals by using the First Baltic Front troops, the Memel operation, it can't… — Ivan Bagramyan Copy Share Image
What would you do if you were President, and, on the first day of May, the Russian Ambassador presented you with a… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
Open the books ... and you will be staggered to see how much American money has been taken from the United States… — Louis Thomas McFadden Copy Share Image
It doesn't work the same way everywhere. The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests. People… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
What does nonalignment mean? It means we don't belong to any military bloc and that we reserve the right to be friends… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
To most people in the U.K., indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy.… — David Hoffman Copy Share Image
Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
One of the things that's amazing about reading the private writing of these folks is that they enthusiastically describe things which we… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Much of America is now in need of an equivalent of Mrs. Thatcher's privatization program in 1980s Britain, or post-Soviet Eastern Europe's… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
John Kerry and the other Democratic leaders are on the wrong side of history, as they were during the Reagan presidency. If… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
All this [Soviet labor camp for political prisoners] brings about one marked change in your physical appearance; by the end of your… — Irina Ratushinskaya Copy Share Image
What I found interesting about Slava Fetisov was that he went through three different generations of Soviet hockey. In the late 70's,… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not… — Alexander Dubcek Copy Share Image
If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
We were extremely prescient in that we predicted the Soviet coup before it happened. That was kind of amazing. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
In the Soviet Union, for instance, the pressure on the chess stars was immense. When Boris Spassky came home after losing that… — Liz Garbus Copy Share Image
I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the… — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
“Like many Eastern European gangsters, he had been an official in the state security apparatus until the Communist regime collapsed.” — Massimo Carlotto Copy Share Image
According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
In Russia, the people have been brought up tough. It used to be the Soviet Union. The thing everybody thinks of when… — Artem Lobov Copy Share Image
I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Of course, in no case would we allow the creation of a regional union in the Balkans, directed against the Soviet Union… — Todor Zhivkov Copy Share Image
The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed -- socialism doesn't work, — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and… — Francois Mitterrand Copy Share Image
![“All this [Soviet labor camp for political prisoners] brings about one marked change in your physical appearance; by the end of your first year, you will have what are known as 'zek's eyes.' The look in a zek's eyes is impossible to describe, but once encountered, it is never forgotten. When you…” quote by Irina Ratushinskaya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/952/irina-ratushinskaya-71158_able_all-this-soviet-labor-camp-for-political_1072105.jpg)
