Soviet Quotes

436 quotes by 289 authors

If surrender could have been brought about in May, 1945, or even in June or July, before the entrance of Soviet Russia into the [Pacific]… — Joseph Grew
We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim is to fight… — Felix Dzerzhinsky
Of course, in no case would we allow the creation of a regional union in the Balkans, directed against the Soviet Union and Bulgaria. — Todor Zhivkov
We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the… — Anna Politkovskaya
We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to… — Andrzej Wajda
If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of… — John C. Wright
One thing with Garry, and I think it is due in a large part to his Soviet training, he'll never quite understand that you have… — Hikaru Nakamura
In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, The Party can always find you! — Yakov Smirnoff
I cannot see that any rational American. . . could conceivably try to fulfill the major national purposes of the United States through the United… — Charles Lichenstein
The first man-made satellite to orbit the earth was named Sputnik. The first living creature in space was Laika. The first rocket to the Moon… — John F. Kennedy
It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union, who managed… — George Friedman
Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an… — Mikhail Gorbachev
If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another. — Harry S. Truman
This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence… — John F. Kennedy
What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter… — Ronald Reagan
Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also… — Dean Acheson
To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United… — J. William Fulbright
Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army. — Vladimir Lenin
The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little… — Barbara Amiel
In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer… — Pierre Laval

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