Soviet union Quote by Colin Thubron

While we like to think queueing is unique to British culture, the truth is that we are mere amateurs. The old Soviet Union turned…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

I think his [Reagan's] policy toward the Soviet Union was more risky than most people realize, and it was risky because of the paranoia…

— David E. Hoffman

The ultimate goal of the whole policy of peaceful co-existence was to make progress on the basic goal laid down by Lenin of a…

— Paul Nitze

“the President was deciding, for the U.S., the Soviet Union, Turkey, NATO, and really for all mankind….”

— Robert F. Kennedy

The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Kennedy, who had campaigned strongly on the “Missile Gap” issue, soon discovered as president that the Soviet Union didn’t have the 500 missiles feared—it…

— Garrett M. Graff

Russia can fall apart. It's not because of the oil prices ... It's because what sticks a country together is a common interest of…

— Ilya Ponomarev

Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

When I joined the Army in the late '70s, there was a real threat from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, so all of…

— Dick Strawbridge

The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Vladimir Putin is a smart guy. I don't like him, smart guy. He is going to advance the cause of Russia until he hits…

— Adam Kinzinger

The Cold War philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which prevented the former Soviet Union and the United States from using the nuclear weapons…

— Bernard Lewis