Soviet Quotes

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Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the… — Jimmy Carter
Unidentified flying objects are a very serious subject which we must study fully. We appeal to all viewers to send us details of strange flying… — Felix Ziegel
They [the Soviets] intend...to induce the Americans to adopt their own 'restructuring' and convergence of the Soviet and American systems using to this end the… — Anatoliy Golitsyn
The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way beyond the imagination… — Anatoliy Golitsyn
By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire. — Barbara Amiel
The secular socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did. — Newt Gingrich
The America in which we grew up is vastly different from the America the secular-socialist Left want to create. And that's why saving America is… — Newt Gingrich
Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic change in strategy… — Newt Gingrich
Most of the people buying the Soviet paraphernalia were Americans and West Europeans. All would be sickened by the thought of wearing a swastika. None… — Anne Applebaum
People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest… — Marcel Dionne
Sometimes I do readings and people canâ€™t stop laughing, but Iâ€™m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor, rather… — Alina Bronsky
The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet military and a… — John F. Kerry
It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and… — George F. Kennan
In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies… — Edward Abbey
Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no… — Edward Abbey
The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in… — Henry A. Kissinger
According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahideen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan,… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told… — Yuri Gagarin

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