Soviet Quotes

436 quotes by 289 authors

In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years. — Alex North
Walter Duranty helped to turn the monster Stalin into a world figure and a hero of the leftistWestern intelligentsia by defending the bloodbath of the… — Lance Morrow
I remain convinced that for Stalin to have complete centralized power in his hands, he found it necessary to physically destroy the second-largest Soviet republic,… — James Mace
American strategic [nuclear] forces do not exist solely for the purpose of deterring a Soviet nuclear threat or attack against the U.S. itself. Instead, they… — Colin S. Gray
This document will play an important role in protecting the strategic interests of Russia and Uzbekistan and ensuring stability and security in the region, which… — Islom Karimov
National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws? If we're not living in the Soviet Union of the United States… — Michael Moriarty
In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist… — George Orwell
Change life! Change Society! These ideas lose completely their meaning without producing an appropriate space. A lesson to be learned from soviet constructivists from the… — Henri Lefebvre
Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive. — Paul Samuelson
What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionismâ€”its supreme test and, as now is… — Michael Pollan
When I used to theorize about a nuclear standoff, I didn't really have to understand what was happening inside the Soviet Union. It is a… — Thomas Schelling
Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of… — Andrzej Wajda
Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued.… — Walter Russell Mead
If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the part of the… — Rich Lowry
My parents, who were Communists, always pretended to be American patriots. You can always convince yourself you are: 'I love America, I just want it… — David Horowitz
Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50 million deaths, and… — Boris Johnson
The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists, and Afghan Islamic… — David Frum
When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United States'… — Jeane Kirkpatrick

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