Soviet Quotes
436 quotes by 289 authors
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I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery…
— Aldrich Ames
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The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their…
— Barbara Amiel
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always…
— Oleg Deripaska
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I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon, who is a…
— Ronnie Dunn
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It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought…
— John Amery
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One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a…
— Noam Chomsky
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One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may…
— Baz Luhrmann
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What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have…
— Slavoj Žižek
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After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system…
— David Levering Lewis
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We have to re-invent socialism. It can’t be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we…
— Hugo Chavez
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After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the…
— Daniel Silva
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I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.
— Daniel Silva
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The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.
— Jean-Marie Le Pen
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I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.
— Vagit Alekperov
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In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless…
— Vagit Alekperov
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Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security…
— Victor Pinchuk
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Unlike the American President's chronic problem of finding ways to give away the country's permanent economic surplus, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's was the problem of…
— Elie Abel
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A missile is a missile. It makes no great difference whether you are killed by a missile fired from the Soviet Union or from Cuba.
— Elie Abel
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I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory…
— Pierre Laval
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If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia,…
— Jose Padilha
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