Soviet Quotes
436 quotes by 296 authors
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Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.
— Vladimir Putin
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Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.
— Vladimir Putin
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I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that…
— Vladimir Putin
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Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash…
— Vladimir Putin
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If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
— Ronald Reagan
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Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely?…
— Paul Robeson
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I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical…
— Paul Robeson
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
— Salman Rushdie
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In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as…
— Simon Sinek
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
— Yakov Smirnoff
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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot…
— Thomas Sowell
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
— Joseph Stalin
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Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
— Joseph Stalin
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If China's expansion into Africa and Russia's into Latin America and the former Soviet Union are any indication, Silicon Valley's ability to expand globally will…
— Evgeny Morozov
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Here's the truth: the Soviet Union had thousands of nuclear weapons, and Iran doesn't have a single one. But when the world was on the…
— Barack Obama
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Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the…
— Philip K. Dick
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Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first…
— Arundhati Roy
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If your Soviet neighbor is trying to set fire to your house, you can't be worrying about the Arab down the block. If suddenly it's…
— Max Brooks
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Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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So I want to thank the Pentagon, the Soviet Union and the military-industrial complex from the bottom of my heart. Without them, I could never…
— George Carlin
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