Battlefields Quote by Richard Perle

“When reason, common sense, and decency are assaulted often enough, then personality is crippled, and human intelligence disintegrates or is warped. The barrier between…

— Frank Ellis

“[I]n the interests of our common tasks, we must sometimes overlook their stupidities,” one Soviet official explained in 1973.”

— John Lewis Gaddis

The Soviet experience was much worse than experts in the West had thought. That discovery had a tremendous impact both on the intellectual community…

— Milton Friedman

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

I have argued that the Soviet story is one of the interaction of speculative excess or utopian aspirations with refractory reality.

— Paul Craig Roberts

“We often like to think of World War II as a triumph of freedom over totalitarianism. We conveniently forget that the Soviet Union was…

— Paul Graham

“indeed Soviet officials frequently complained about the “dependent” habits of Homo Sovieticus, his lack of initiative, and his stubborn expectation”

— Sheila Fitzpatrick

“If political scientists couldn’t predict the downfall of the Soviet Union—perhaps the most important event in the latter half of the twentieth century—then what…

— Nate Silver

“The Soviet “creative intelligentsia” - that is, people accustomed to thinking one thing, saying another and doing a third - is as a whole…

— Andrei Amalrik

“He who does not regret the breakup of the Soviet Union has no heart. He who wants to revive it in its previous form…

— Michael Rank

A Russian Reversal quote on Uncyclopedia's Soviet Union article? How original.

— Yakov Smirnoff

Pavel Palazchenko has given us a well-written, inside account of Gorbachev's and Shevardnadze's diplomacy. Remarkably objective, it is full of insights, makes fascinating reading,…

— Jack F. Matlock, Jr