Soviet Quote by Lennart Meri Download Open image “Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.” — Lennart Meri ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Soviet Time Understood World
It was probably one of the things that gave me a sense of possibility and allowed for me to see beyond the small community… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on. — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
I remember my time growing up. It was a little bit difficult because the Soviet Union was broken. — Gennady Golovkin Copy Share Image
Of course, I know everything that happens in Russia. But even at the most dangerous moment or the most negative moment now, it's still… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
We had a general awareness, for example, of Russian use of social media - Facebook ads, use of Twitter, fake news implants - we… — James R. Clapper Copy Share Image
“In fact, among the people I met, the term soviet served essentially as a synonym for 'fucked up'. I'd been in the country about… — Anthony DeCurtis Copy Share Image
Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
In Soviet times, the border was closed, so we couldn't get out of the country, and I had been reading Robinson Crusoe. I wanted… — Wladimir Klitschko Copy Share Image
In Georgia, people had already understood that communism couldn't survive, and I came to the institute in Moscow, and people still believed in it.… — Bidzina Ivanishvili Copy Share Image
I remember starting to read about the Soviet Union when I was eight years old; I think I was reading my father's 'New York… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more… — Petra Nemcova Copy Share Image
Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature. — Lennart Meri Copy Share Image
Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once… — Lennart Meri Copy Share Image
I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table. — Lennart Meri Copy Share Image
With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded. — Lennart Meri Copy Share Image
That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world. — Lennart Meri Copy Share Image
Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another. — Lennart Meri Copy Share Image
In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety.… — Lennart Meri Copy Share Image
Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect, — Lennart Meri Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Dentists, doctors, surveyors from Latvia wanted to come to England, do anything to get away from the Soviet regime. — Guy Martin Copy Share Image