It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA. — Jorge Luis Borges 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
Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border of Afghanistan, I wrote to President Jimmy Carter: We now have the opportunity… — Zbigniew Brzezinski 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
I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to… — Dmitri Shostakovich 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
[Albert]Camus had denounced the gulag and Stalin's trials. Today we can see that he was right. To say that there were concentration… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
“So you were dissidents? You believed in finishing the USSR?''No. It's not like that. You just speak several languages at the same… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
Stock ownership in the US is very highly concentrated. [Shareholder actions are] something, but it's like the old Communist Party in the… — Noam Chomsky 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
“Graças a Churchill, não foi a Alemanha que passou a dominar a Europa, mas sim os Estados Unidos e a Rússia. Graças… — Sebastian Haffner Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan [ cite the founders] on behalf of emphasizing the faith of our founders, of limited government, of the uniqueness and… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
“Do you know what China is?” Ogden asked. “It’s the Soviet Union on steroids. It’s Russia with a world-class economy and ten… — Matthew FitzSimmons 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
“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
Let's not forget that one poll after another clearly demonstrates that well over 50% of Russian citizens still wants both socialism and… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
“The USSR, which they'd begun to renovate and improve at about the time when Tatarsky decided to change his profession, improved so… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
“In this respect the differences between the USA and the USSR are those of evangelical dinosaurs competing for domination on one small… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“the USSR, far from having engineered the April 1978 communist seizure of power in Kabul, and plotting then to send in troops… — Fred Halliday 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
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
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 cannot see that any rational American. . . could conceivably try to fulfill the major national purposes of the United States… — Charles Lichenstein Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union has long been proposing to outlaw chemical weapons, to remove them from the arsenals of states. We are prepared… — Konstantin Chernenko 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 system in hopes of saving it. In the end he could not.” quote by David Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83b/david-hoffman-38227_economic_gorbachev-was-acutely-aware-of-the-ussr_2878329.jpg)
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![“[Albert]Camus had denounced the gulag and Stalin's trials. Today we can see that he was right. To say that there were concentration camps in the USSR at the time was blasphemous, something very serious indeed. Today we think about the USSR with the camps also in mind, but before it just wasn't…” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d9/catherine-camus-12238_camps_albert-camus-had-denounced-the-gulag-and_163819.jpg)
![“Stock ownership in the US is very highly concentrated. [Shareholder actions are] something, but it's like the old Communist Party in the USSR, it would be nice to see more protest inside the Communist Party but it's not democracy. It's not going to happen. [Shareholder actions] are a good step…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6bb/noam-chomsky-42_action_stock-ownership-in-the-us-is-very-highly_1143772.jpg)
![“Ronald Reagan [ cite the founders] on behalf of emphasizing the faith of our founders, of limited government, of the uniqueness and exceptionalism of America, of a nation with a people facing another historic challenge beyond the American Revolution, and in contrasting the system of the United…” quote by Paul Kengor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7bc/paul-kengor-14302_america_ronald-reagan-cite-the-founders-on-behal_1038882.jpg)
