Soviet Quotes

436 quotes by 289 authors

I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different. — Alexander Lebed
This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the old Soviet Union.… — John McCain
The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins… — Jeffrey Sachs
Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB… — Martin Cruz Smith
I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations. — Matt Stone
The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures… — E. P. Thompson
The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal… — Yulia Tymoshenko
Ukraine is a vital link for Europe: our energy transportation networks; our location between the European Union and Eurasia. We're the melting pot of Catholicism… — Yulia Tymoshenko
Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say,… — Ernest Mandel
The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force.… — Boris Yeltsin
The Soviet Union at this time was being run by the Communists, a group of men fierce in their dedication to wearing hilariously bad suits.… — Dave Barry
Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work. — Frank Zappa
A great deal of the pupils time was spent going through, once again, the History of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the Soviet Union. He… — George Mikes
There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the… — P.J. O'Rourke
I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example - must have realized… — P.J. O'Rourke
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 would shatter the… — P.J. O'Rourke
What would you do if you were President, and, on the first day of May, the Russian Ambassador presented you with a beautiful cake which… — W.C. Fields
Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he'll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came… — Neal Stephenson
All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated… — Ken Livingstone
Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken. — Xi Jinping

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