Soviet Quotes
436 quotes by 289 authors
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I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.
— Garry Kasparov
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Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than…
— Richard Lugar
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Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to others,…
— Francois Mitterrand
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to…
— Omar Bongo
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We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union.
— Frank Knox
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There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.
— Gerald R. Ford
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The orthodoxy of America is as rigid as that of Soviet Russia. There is one point of view allowed. If you start a conversation from…
— David Hare
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We ran up to them and they gave us hugs, cookies, and chocolate. Being so alone a hug meant more than anybody could imagine because…
— Eva Mozes Kor
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In those years, it was easier to win the Soviet Championship than a game against 'Iron Tigran'.
— Lev Polugaevsky
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Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global spread of brutality…
— Ayn Rand
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And lastly, Chairman Khrushchev has compared the United States to a worn-out runner living on its past performance, and stated that the Soviet Union would…
— John F. Kennedy
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The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation with Communists in…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing…
— Winston Churchill
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If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people everywhere - let…
— Paul Robeson
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I am truly happy that I am able to travel from time to time to the USSR the country I love above all. I always…
— Paul Robeson
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But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a…
— George Steiner
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When I was a kid, I was like everyone else: afraid of getting nuked. We had drills in school - Sweden was very close to…
— Dolph Lundgren
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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has…
— J. William Fulbright
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If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
— Newt Gingrich
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Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.
— Newt Gingrich
Who Wrote These Soviet Quotes
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