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“We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.”

Long War Principles Security Cold Unions Superiors Collectives Soviet Cold War Soviet Union Caution Prudent Weaponry Collective Security

Author:Theodore C. Sorensen

“Think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela - these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us.”

Thinking Way Country Serious Unions Threat Tiny Iran Soviet Soviet Union Cuba Venezuela

Author:Barack Obama

“Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.”

Source: Change We Can Believe In

“It has not been possible to build that society. It set very high standards, because not only would life in the Soviet Union or in any other country which adopted that system, have to be just as good as in the Capitalist world, it would have to be better. So that other peoples, other nations would want to join it, and obviously we have failed in that.”

World Want Country Nations Standards Unions Soviet Capitalist Other Countries Soviet Union Adopted High Standards Kgb

Author:George Blake

“KGB was inseparable part of the Soviet Union and the whole structure of the Soviet society. We believe that the achievements of the Soviet Union and of the Soviet society, it's main achievements until the split in 1991, it was at the same time the main achievements of the KGB, because it was working for the same cause.”

Believe Whole Causes Achievement Structure Unions Soviet Splits Soviet Union Inseparable Kgb

Author:Vladimir Semichastny

“I've never been to the Soviet Union and the main reason for that is I was warned several times by people from the KGB who had defected to the West that it would be very unsafe for me to go there”

People Reason Would Be Unions West Soviet Soviet Union Unsafe Kgb

Author:Brian Crozier

“The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?”

Play Helping Roles Achieve Information Particular Victory Unions West Soviet Soviet Union Inadequate

Author:Aldrich Ames

“I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!'”

People Ifs Feelings Today Earth Wonder Stupid Please Demand Weapons Europe Unions Western Nuclear Eras Genocide Soviet Nuclear Weapons Soviet Union Annihilation Deployment Western Europe

Author:Craig Reucassel

“Strong countries and strong presidents talk to their adversaries. That's what Kennedy did with Khrushchev. That's what Reagan did with Gorbachev. That's what Nixon did with Mao. I mean think about it. Iran, Cuba, Venezuela - these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us. And yet we were willing to talk to the Soviet Union at the time when they were saying we're going to wipe you off the planet.”

Thinking Way Mean Country Strong President Willing Planets Serious Unions Threat Tiny Iran Soviet Soviet Union Adversaries Wipe Cuba Venezuela Mao Gorbachev

Author:Barack Obama

“I want to tell them (western countries) just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon be wiped out.”

Want Doe Country Today Unions Western Insane Soviet Regimes Soviet Union Zionist

Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road.”

People Two Walking Mets One Day Unions Soviet Soviet Union Banner

Author:Satish Kumar

“When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.”

Years Two Country Decided Unions Two Years Soviet Soviet Union

Author:Alex North

“Walter Duranty helped to turn the monster Stalin into a world figure and a hero of the leftistWestern intelligentsia by defending the bloodbath of the Soviet Union from its critics in the now famous: "You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.”

World Turns Figures Hero Unions Critics Monsters Eggs Genocide Soviet Soviet Union Ukraine Famine Breaking Eggs

Author:Lance Morrow

“National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws? If we're not living in the Soviet Union of the United States we certainly have returned to 1776 and 'taxation without representation.'”

Ifs States Law United United States Television Health Unions Fund Controlled Soviet Representation Soviet Union Taxation Pension Seizures Taxation Without Representation

Author:Michael Moriarty

“What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.”

Clear Lows Tests Unions Campaigns Supreme Fats Ideology Soviet Soviet Union Marxism

Book:In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.”

Ends America Unions Warrior Soviet Soviet Union

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.”

Country Break Unions Folks Dancer Soviet Teens Soviet Union Ukrainian

Author:Vera Farmiga

“When I used to theorize about a nuclear standoff, I didn't really have to understand what was happening inside the Soviet Union. It is a lot harder now to build a theory that can encompass all the complications of today's conflicts.”

Today Used Theory Conflict Happenings Harder Unions Nuclear Soviet Soviet Union Complication Standoffs

Author:Thomas Schelling

“Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore.”

Ifs War Enough Would Be Force Issues Groups Military Policy Died Unions Terror Terrorist Afghanistan Soviet Frightening Reverse Soviet Union Carter War On Terror Terrorist Groups

Author:Walter Russell Mead

“If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial plant to the USSR's already great industrial plant, the United States would be reduced to the character of a garrison state if it were to survive at all.”

Ifs War States Character Hands Would Be Loses United United States Cold Europe Unions Plant Soviet Cold War Soviet Union Berlin Ussr

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists, and Afghan Islamic reactionaries, to name only a few. Many of these discordant groups disliked the United States intensely. But Americans were able to mobilize them to direct their ire at the Soviet Union first.”

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Author:David Frum

“The International Brigade was not formed to protect freedom and democracy. It was founded as a tool of of the Comintern, to promote the interests of the Soviet Union - and thereby of Joseph Stalin, the butcher of millions. It made political sense for the International Brigade to recruit non-communists - useful fools was what Lenin had called such people in an earlier manipulation of gullible decency - but of course most were then vetted by the NKVD, the Soviet Union's secret police.”

“An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the White House, walk up to Reagan's desk and say, 'I don't like the way you are running the country.' Gorbachev replied, You can do the same thing in the Soviet Union. You can go into the Kremlin, walk up to my desk and say 'I don't like the way Reagan is running his country.'”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“All s, like all human beings, get many things wrong. Ronald Reagan's extraordinary achievement as of the U.S. was to succeed in getting the two biggest challenges of his time right: defeating the Soviet Union and reviving the American economy and spirit. Neither of those achievements was inevitable. Both were fiercely opposed at the time. But he persisted; his visionary focus matched only by a gentleness of character and a brilliance of rhetoric.”

“Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.”

Men Should Ideas War Cold Intellectual Unions Irony Historian Soviet Cold War Soviet Union Battlefields Commentators

Author:Richard Perle

“The passing of Marxism-Leninism first from China and then from the Soviet Union will mean its death as a living ideology ... . For while there may be some isolated true believers left in places like Managua, Pyongyang, or Cambridge, MA.”

Firsts May Mean Politics Left Unions China Believer Passing Passings Ideology Soviet Isolated Soviet Union Marxism True Believer Cambridge Marxism Leninism

Book:A Look at

Source: A Look at

“When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.”

States Politics United United States Issues Arms Blame Unions Democrat Soviet Soviet Union Negotiation San Francisco

Book:National and international dimensions

Source: National and international dimensions

“According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.”

Technology Office Percent Capacity Destruction Unions Oil Soviet Soviet Union Missiles Assessment Refining Poseidon Minutemen

Author:James Fallows

“It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big Powers who need the United Nations for their protection. It is all the others. In this sense, the Organization is first of all their Organization and I deeply believe in the wisdom with which they will be able to use it and guide it. I shall remain in my post during the term of my office as a servant of the Organization in the interests of all those other nations, as long as they wish me to do so.”

Needs Firsts Believe Long Use Bigs Able Nations Wish Term Interest United Office Organization Unions Protection Guides Posts Servant Soviet Soviet Union United Nations

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“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. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.”

Firsts Moments Force Wall Unions Empires Soviet Soviet Union Hammers Berlin Ussr Berlin Wall

Book:The View from the Kremlin

Source: The View from the Kremlin

“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. Their leader was Josef Stalin (Russian for "Joey Bananas")”

Men Running Funny Leader Groups Humorous Unions Russia Suits Communist Soviet Dedication Fierce Soviet Union Bananas Joey Josef Stalin

Book:Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States

Source: Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States

“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 had learnt it at elementary school; at secondary school; at his sports club; at the Komsomol; at the university; at a folk dancing course; at the chess-club.”

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Author: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 to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?”

War America Economy Issues Achieve Periods Unions Posts Soviet Socialist Soviet Union Clash Global Economy Post War

Author: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.”

Important Reason Belief Party Ideals Unions Communist Soviet Collapse Soviet Union Communist Party

Author: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 of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.”

Wells Law Names Unions Punishment Agents Soviet Soviet Union Machinery Exposing Capital Punishment Prosecution

Author: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 own inefficient empire.”

Country Running Interest Economy Benefits Unions Empires Soviet Soviet Union Developed Country

Author: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 major government-media blitz was launched by the President. That month the AP wires carried more stories about drugs than about Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa combined. If you looked at television, every news program had a big section on how drugs were destroying our society, becoming the greatest threat to our existence, etc.”

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