Soviet Quotes

436 quotes by 296 authors

The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the… — Joseph Rotblat
They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in peace, tranquility. But if anyone… — Nikita Khrushchev
The serious problem is the education of the peasantry. The peasant economy is scattered, and the socialization of agriculture, judging by the Soviet Union's experience,… — Mao Zedong
I grew up a little girl in the Soviet Union playing at a small sports club. Tennis gave me my life. — Anna Kournikova
Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites… — Eugene Jarecki
I remember as a child going to an exhibit about the Soviet Union, and every paper had this alien smell. The paper and the ink… — Ben Katchor
We need to make it very clear to the Iranians, the same way we made it clear to the Soviet Union and China, that their… — John Abizaid
The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it. — Lincoln Steffens
Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union. — Vladimir Putin
When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a significant amount of information through Soviet foreign… — Vladimir Putin
My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education. — Vladimir Putin
NATO was built to counteract the Soviet Union in its day and time. At this point there is no threat coming from the Soviet Union,… — Vladimir Putin
I have a Ph.D. in philosophy and sports science. At 14, I went through this really tough Soviet training system. A lot of my roommates… — Wladimir Klitschko
Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a… — Mikhail Gorbachev
There were a lot of negatives, of course, but there were positives to living a life unfettered by possessions. It gave us the chance to… — Jan Koum
When I was a kid trying to communicate with family in the Soviet Union, it was very difficult. You had to go through the long-distance… — Jan Koum
The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of… — P.J. O'Rourke
In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did. — P.J. O'Rourke
Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus?… — P.J. O'Rourke
This power, this authority, Soviet power: they killed everybody who could make any resistance, who could explain his own way of thinking and who could… — Vladimir Bukovsky

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