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“We still have many shortcomings and failures to fulfill the Party's demands, especially as regards the liquidation in some of our people of survivals of the accursed past in consciousness and conduct and the fulfillment of the demands of our Soviet ethics and military discipline.”

People Stills Past Party Consciousness Military Discipline Demand Survival Ethics Regard Fulfillment Soviet Shortcomings Military Discipline

Author:Filipp Golikov

“When you grow up in the Soviet society under the communists you heard about the one man who is especially dangerous, especially crazy, and absolutely mad, and which would destroy all the human beings and the economies and so on, and this man was called Milton Friedman.”

Men Humans Grows Human Beings Economy Growing Up Heard Crazy Dangerous Mad One Man Communist Soviet Milton

Author:Mart Laar

“With us it is not a question of Bolshevism or democracy, but of life or death. A decision in favor of a Soviet could not be opposed by the Young Turks.”

Young Decision Democracy Favors Soviet Life Or Death Bolshevism

Author:Djemal Pasha

“All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture... There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all... I have many friends who are Jews.”

Problem Culture Enjoy Development Unions Jew Soviet Soviet Union Many Friends

Author:Anastas Mikoyan

“In 1980 I was a red kid and no one could have said anything bad about the Soviet Union. At least this is how my grandfather used to remember me. Around 1981, I became a pro-capitalist person and it stuck.”

Persons Said Kids Remember Used Red Unions Stuck Soviet Capitalist Grandfather Soviet Union My Grandfather Remember Me

Author:Lubos Motl

“I am a citizen of the Soviet Union and I think sharp measures need to be taken against anti-Soviet forces that are trying to make their way into the leadership. In addition, it is vitally important to maintain the lines of communication with Germany through Poland.”

Thinking Way Needs Trying Important Force Lines Taken Communication Citizens Unions Germany Soviet Soviet Union Poland Lines Of Communication

Author:Konstantin Rokossovsky

“The Soviet Union, true to the Leninist principles of respect for the rights and national independence of all peoples great or small, has always been and is guided in its relations with other countries by the principles of mutual respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty, non-aggression, non-intervention in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefits, peaceful coexistence and economic cooperation.”

“Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!”

World War Ends Lasts Blood Position War Of The Worlds Soil Territory Soviet Inches World War 2

Author:Joseph Stalin

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

People Government Psychology Conditions Grew Habit Soviet

Book:The World of Lincoln Steffens

Source: The World of Lincoln Steffens

“In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.”

Way America Strange Unions Expected Russia Soviet Reverse Soviet Union

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“People in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those that do regret it have no brain.”

People Heart Brain Regret Unions Russia Soviet Collapse Soviet Union

Author:Vladimir Putin

“During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy as a model -- all this at a time when literally millions of people were starving to death in the Soviet Union, from a famine in a country with some of the richest farmland in Europe and historically a large exporter of food.”

People Country America Millions Economy Economic Models Europe Unions Soviet Soviet Union Starving Famine 1930s Economic Systems Farmland

Book:Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

“When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.”

Loses Moral Authority Unions Afghanistan Soviet Soviet Union American Politics Credibility Moral Authority Czechoslovakia Grenada

Author:Jesse Jackson

“Happy hour is slightly different in the Soviet Union. There are no ice cubes or orange-peel twists in the vodka. Also, it lasts all day.”

Different War Lasts Hours Cold Unions Ice Soviet Cold War Soviet Union Orange Twists Vodka Cubes Happy Hour

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.”

War Country Law Cold Doctrine Broke Soviet Cold War Brezhnev

Author:Jack Kemp

“It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island.”

War Force Military Cold Islands Soviet Cold War Coincidence Cuban Thug Advisors Grenada

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.”

World War States United United States Cold Unions Soviet Cold War Soviet Union Policemen Jailer

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The most cost-effective move we could make in defense spending would be to shift the focus of CIA operations, giving this agency the directive to make trouble for the Soviet Union.”

Giving War Would Be Moving Focus Trouble Cold Cost Unions Spending Defense Operations Agency Soviet Cold War Soviet Union Cia Defense Spending

Author:John P. Wheeler III

“With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is our fault. But we didn't kill Russian civilians by shooting down a civilian airplane. We didn't attempt to conquer an adjacent country to ours. We didn't walk out on negotiations and refuse to give a date for when we would resume.”

Giving War Country Walks Cold Relation Unions Faults Refuse Conquer Shooting Soviet Airplane Cold War Soviet Union Negotiation Strain Civilians Resumes Inference

Author:Ronald Reagan

“The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.”

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Author:Joseph Stalin

“It is a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union's most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the administration of the most ill-informed and dangerous man ever to occupy the White House.”

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Author:George McGovern

“The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s.”

War Peace Beats Miracle Workers Soviet Cuban Grenada

Author:William Cohen

“The visual impact of a United States battleship springs from its ability to put Soviet ships on the bottom of the sea and to put devastating firepower ashore - nothing else.”

War States Peace Ability United United States Sea Spring Impact Bottom Ships Visuals Soviet

Author:John Lehman

“Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.”

Ends Ideals Unions Soviet Soviet Union

Author:Steve Earle

“As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself.”

Looks War States America Certain United Deals United States Support Example Cold Circles Propaganda Soviet Cold War Ideological Clumsy Soviet Propaganda

Author:Alexander Haig

“Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.”

Unions Soviet Soviet Union Armament

Author:Norman Mailer

“If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.”

Ifs Looks Past Attitude Our Society Affected Soviet Sober Nostalgic

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.”

Ifs Humans Looks Values Failing Civilization Weakness Ideals Unions Threat Corruption Dues Internals Empires Manifest Soviet Soviet Union Roman Empire Human Civilization

Author:Cory Booker

“To most people in the UK, indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is - in many respects - a valid one. Superpower rivalry during the Cold War ramped up US and Soviet space efforts to a scale that Western Europe had no motive to match.”

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Author:Martin Rees

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

Culture Christ Crosses Unions Soviet Soviet Union American Culture

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each against all. When there is enough goods in a store, the purchasers can come whenever they want to. When there is little goods, the purchasers are compelled to stand in line. When the lines are very long, it is necessary to appoint a policeman to keep order. Such is the starting point of the power of the Soviet bureaucracy. It "knows" who is to get something and who has to wait.”

Knows Want Littles Long Enough Order Waiting Lines Poverty Struggle Objects Bases Starting Stores Goods Soviet Consumption Bureaucracy Compelled Policemen Starting Point Purchasers

Book:The Revolution Betrayed

Source: The Revolution Betrayed

“Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.”

Unions Oppression Soviet Elites Devoted Soviet Union Antagonism

Author:Eugene Jarecki

“In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.”

Government Speak Unions Soviet Soviet Union Speaks Out Sponsors

Author:Kalle Lasn

“Why not admit that the words separation and church do not even appear in the US Constitution, he added. Instead, they do appear in Article 52 of the Constitution of the Soviet Union.”

Church Constitution Unions Scary Separation Why Not Articles Soviet Soviet Union Us Constitution

Author:Tim LaHaye

“The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an unknown that we may let its ideologists call Socialism the Communist dictators have produced a brutal approximation of monopoly Capitalism, a system that has all the disadvantages of our own, with none of the palliatives which come to us from surviving competition and from the essential division of economic and political power which has so far made it possible for the humane traditions of the Western world to continue.”

“News for the godless: religion is inescapable. there has never been a human society without some form of worship. And don't point to communist societies like the Soviet Union - they worshipped blue jeans.”

Humans Form Religion Worship News Blue Unions Communist Soviet Jeans Soviet Union Human Society Blue Jeans

Author:Stephen Colbert

“You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really nasty guys, we did some things that we are not particularly proud of, from Latin America to Southeast Asia, but we did have a kind of overarching framework about what we were trying to do that did lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. That was our objective. We achieved it.”

“There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration.... The United States does notconcede that those countries are under the domination of the Soviet Union.”

Doe Country States United United States Europe Unions Administration Soviet Soviet Union Eastern Domination Eastern Europe

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting.”

Ifs Knows Stills Wisdom Waiting Black Leadership Work Roles History Policy Like You Equal Models Female Individuality Ideology Role Models Soviet Foreign Policy Equal Rights Specialists

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“In the Soviet Union, for instance, the pressure on the chess stars was immense. When Boris Spassky came home after losing that match, he found he no longer had an apartment in Moscow.”

Home Found Stars Losing Pressure Unions Chess Instance Soviet Immense Apartment Soviet Union Moscow

Author:Liz Garbus

“I think during the Cold War in America at least, there was a division; there was the Soviet government and there were the oppressed people, who were not represented by this government. That was a massive oversimplification of what the true situation was there. There were certainly many people who were completely and fully alienated from the government.”

People Thinking War Government America Situation Cold Massive Division Soviet Oppressed Cold War Oversimplification

Author:Joe Weisberg

“If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What is this self-love? Where does this come from? It got worse, because after the war we thought we'd won it. That's the first myth. Frankly, Russia won it. The Soviet Union sacrificed far greater form than anyone else to win that war. Secondly, we had the atomic bomb. We should not have dropped it on Japan. We did as an example to the Soviets, not to defeat Japan and to save American lives. These are myths that we explode with a lot of research early on.”

“Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of a détente with the Soviet Union, a new feeling for peace, a seeking out of a new ally with the Soviet Union - the end of the Cold War, as Kennedy called it in his American University speech.”

Years Different War Ends Feelings Three Cold Speech Unions University Seeking Allies Soviet Three Years Cold War Soviet Union Johnson American Universities New Feelings

Author:Oliver Stone

“JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.”

World Has Beens War Ends States United United States Position Cold Calling Unions Soviet Cold War Soviet Union New Position

Author:Oliver Stone

“In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.”

Law Active Phenomenon Soviet Penalties Hostile Death Penalty Liable Anti Semitism Severity

Book:Works

Source: Works

“We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the Soviet Union.”

People World Country Bases Prison Unions South California Soviet South Africa Soviet Union

Author:Rose Bird

“Soviet propaganda is remarkably effective and the Americans are even more remarkably stupid.”

Stupid Propaganda Soviet Soviet Propaganda

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“Open the books ... and you will be staggered to see how much American money has been taken from the United States Treasury for the benefit of Russia. Find out what business has been transacted for the State Bank of Soviet Russia, by its correspondent, the Chase Bank of New York [owned by the Rockefellers].”

Has Beens Book States United United States Taken New York Benefits Russia Communism Soviet Banking Treasury Soviet Russia

Author:Louis Thomas McFadden

“In Turkey it was always 1952, in Malaysia 1937; Afghanistan was 1910 and Bolivia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the Soviet Union, 10 in Norway, five in France. It is always last year in Australia and next week in Japan.”

Years Lasts Next Five Week Internet Years Ago Unions France Japan Australia Afghanistan Soviet Free Speech Last Year Soviet Union Turkeys Next Week Norway Malaysia Bolivia

Book:The Lower River

Source: The Lower River

“I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.”

Feels I Can Light America Happiness Joy Darkness Soviet Cigarette

Author:Mohammed Daoud Khan

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