Globalisation Quote by Mark Fisher

The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever.

— Robert Gottlieb

Although the U.S.-Soviet rivalry was global in scope, its center of gravity was the Iron Curtain in Europe, where both sides had massive armies…

— John Mearsheimer

As awful as the crimes of Stalinism were, the vast majority of the Russian population was trying to survive, to love, to have a…

— Amor Towles

I just don't see this old idea of the Red peril, itching to take over the world. I think you can explain a lot…

— John Anderson

Once the Eastern Bloc collapsed, what I call 'historical spontaneity' prevailed and the countries that were subject to Soviet control naturally gravitated to the…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the…

— Winston Churchill

With a rumble and a roar, an iron curtain is descending on Russian history.

— Vasily Rozanov

The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand…

— Lincoln Steffens

For them (the peoples of the Soviet Union) We cherish the warmest paternal affection. We are well aware that not a few of them…

— Pope Pius XI

Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and…

— Vladimir Putin

With Russia, it is almost similar to China: people there have had it up to here with the West! The Russian people suffered immensely…

— Andre Vltchek