“Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day… — Christopher Hitchens 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
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
Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
The abbreviations (e.g. NATO, UN, USSR - E.W.) denote that and only that which is institutionalized in such a way that the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
In fact, we've entered a world which is arguably much more dangerous than [being] eyeball to eyeball with the USSR. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
“My 'morals' were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense. — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good… — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm asked about independent cinema, I think of what Fidel Castro said during the Cold War about the league of non-aligned… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
“In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being – no colour prejudice like in Mississippi, no colour… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
“Andrei Yanuaryevich (one longs to blurt out, “Jaguaryevich”) Vyshinsky, availing himself of the most flexible dialectics (of a sort nowadays not permitted… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The general economic growth of the quarter of a century that followed World War II not surprisingly created many illusions. In the… — Samir Amin Copy Share Image
When the history of the 20th century is finally written, one of its key features will be the wanton slaughter of more… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“Well, let me just end with one last point to do with your question. One of the issues which has devastated a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
After visits to several Communist countries (USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, East Germany, Vietnam, China, Cuba), I feel strongly that most "revolutionary" types… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“I offered them Utopia, but they fought for the right to live in Hell.” — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
Back in the days of the Soviet Union, the countries of Eastern Europe, being under the control of the USSR, would call… — Garry Kasparov 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
Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the… — David Hoffman Copy Share Image
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