Soviet Union Quotes

224 quotes by 166 authors

Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over… — Azar Nafisi
For them (the peoples of the Soviet Union) We cherish the warmest paternal affection. We are well aware that not a few of them groan… — Pope Pius XI
This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the old Soviet Union.… — John McCain
The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins… — Jeffrey Sachs
The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force.… — Boris Yeltsin
The Soviet Union at this time was being run by the Communists, a group of men fierce in their dedication to wearing hilariously bad suits.… — Dave Barry
A great deal of the pupils time was spent going through, once again, the History of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the Soviet Union. He… — George Mikes
All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated… — Ken Livingstone
Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken. — Xi Jinping
I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery… — Aldrich Ames
The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their… — Barbara Amiel
One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a… — Noam Chomsky
After readingÂ The New Jim Crow,Â Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system… — David Levering Lewis
We have to re-invent socialism. It canâ€™t be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we… — Hugo Chavez
After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the… — Daniel Silva
In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless… — Vagit Alekperov
A missile is a missile. It makes no great difference whether you are killed by a missile fired from the Soviet Union or from Cuba. — Elie Abel
If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia,… — Jose Padilha
I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball. — Garry Kasparov
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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