“During the '80s, those you would call the young philosophers of France, such as Bernard-Henri Lévy and [André ] Gluxman, pointed out that Camus had said things no one wanted to hear in the political arena. They said it was [Albert] Camus who was right, not those who had slid under the influence of Sartre, that is to say an unconditional devotion to Communism as seen in the Soviet Union. And ever since then the evaluation of Camus has continued to modify up until today” SaidTodayWantedYoungPoliticalInfluenceUnionsPhilosopherDevotionCommunismFranceSovietThey SaidSoviet Union80sArenaUnconditionalEvaluation Author:Catherine Camus
“Japan announced that it would not comply with this declaration [ 1956]. Later on, the Soviet Union also declared that the declaration could not be fulfilled unilaterally, by the USSR alone.” UnionsJapanSovietFulfilledDeclarationSoviet UnionUssr Author:Vladimir Putin
“Now we are talking about concluding a free trade agreement between the Eurasian Economic Council, recently established in the post-Soviet space, and China. A similar agreement was concluded a short time ago with Vietnam. Then, we will coordinate, at least we are ready to do this, the Chinese concept of the Silk Road Economic Belt with our newly-created regional organisation. So, do you understand how diverse, multi-faceted and deep Russian-Chinese ties have become over the last couple of decades? And we resolved the border issue.” LastsSpaceTalkingIssuesEconomicReadyCoupleConceptsTradeChinaDecadesPostsChineseBordersTiesAgreementVietnamSovietDiverseCouncilBeltsOrganisationSilkShort TimeFree TradeCoordinatesTrade AgreementsConcludingSilk Road Author:Vladimir Putin
“When you look around the world, every place that socialism has been implemented, it has failed miserably, destroying the economy, freedom and - in Germany, the Soviet Union and other nations - millions of lives.” WorldLooksHas BeensNationsMillionsEconomyUnionsSocialismAround The WorldGermanyDestroyingSovietSoviet Union Author:Rick Perry
“It's a little hard to avoid putting both war and politics in, in that they both come into the activity, but on their own. My basic idea is to do a great love film set in the hell of 1942. At that moment, hell was Leningrad. Underneath all this, of course, is a film about dissension between the two most important countries in the world, the United States and the Soviet Union. I think it is a must at this point to talk about cooperation instead of the rancor and hatred and competition between nations.” ThinkingWorldLittlesTwoImportantIdeasWarCountryHardStatesMomentsFilmCoursesNationsUnitedUnited StatesHellActivityHatredCompetitionUnionsThat MomentCooperationSovietSoviet UnionGreat LoveFilm SetLove FilmsDissensionRancorLeningrad Author:Sergio Leone
“I was a kid, and I was very excited to experience this whole new world. And everything was fun, everything from, oh, wow, we get bananas - I'd only seen them in picture books, you know - to, like, the diversity of the neighborhood and to explore Judaism for the first time. It was really hushed in the Soviet Union.” KnowsWorldFirstsBookWholeKidsFunDiversityFirst TimeUnionsExcitedNeighborhoodNew WorldWowSovietSoviet UnionJudaismBananasPicture Books Author:Regina Spektor
“If commissars in Soviet Russia agreed to subordinate themselves to state power, they could at least plead fear in extenuation. Their counterparts in more free and open societies can plead only cowardice.” IfsStatesRussiaSovietCowardiceSubordinatesCounterpartsSoviet Russia Author:Noam Chomsky
“There used to be a lot more politics in the Olympics, when the Soviet Bloc committed a lot of resources for propaganda purposes.” UsedPurposeResourcesCommittedUsed To BePropagandaSovietOlympics Author:Jim Courier
“[Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this light, as directly political, medical abuse of human rights. The mutilation of healthy bodies and the subjection of such bodies to dangerous and life-threatening continuing treatment violates such people's rights to live with dignity in the body into which they were born.” PeopleShouldHumansBodyLightPoliticalBornRightsDangerousHealthyDignityAbuseUnionsHuman RightsMedicalTreatmentSovietContinuingSurgeryThreateningSoviet UnionPsychiatrySubjectionHealthy BodyMutilationTranssexuals Author:Sheila Jeffreys
“The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.” WorldCountryMightTermEconomyEconomicDevelopmentOffersModelsJokesThirdsUnionsThreatSovietSoviet UnionThird WorldEconomic Development Author:Jack Kemp
“World War Two was a world war in space. It spread from Europe to Japan, to the Soviet Union, etc. World War Two was quite different from World War One which was geographically limited to Europe. But in the case of the Gulf War, we are dealing with a war which is extremely local in space, but global in time, since it is the first 'live' war.” WorldFirstsTwoDifferentWarSpaceCasesEuropeUnionsSpreadLocalsWar Of The WorldsEtcJapanSovietWorld War ISoviet UnionGulf WarWorld War TwoWorld War One Author:Paul Virilio
“Back in the days of the Soviet Union, the countries of Eastern Europe, being under the control of the USSR, would call their states "people's republics." The sham that is currently going on in the states of the former Soviet Union is due to the fact that the politicians in power are eager to polish up their image abroad.” PeopleCountryStatesFactsPoliticianEuropeUnionsDuesFormerRepublicSovietSoviet UnionEasternPolishEastern EuropeUssr Author:Garry Kasparov
“We know that the governments in most of the successor states formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union are replaced through a process of regular elections.” KnowsStatesGovernmentProcessElectionUnionsSovietCollapseReplacedSoviet UnionSuccessors Author:Garry Kasparov
“As for the eastern part of the former Soviet Union, the picture is rather uniform. Authoritarian structures prevail to differing extents. But we can still determine certain regularities, and the role of Russia is not to be underestimated. It is clear that we would have the same situation in Tajikistan and, let's say, Uzbekistan without the direct influence of Russia.” StillsCertainSituationRolesClearInfluenceDirectStructureUnionsDetermineRussiaFormerSovietUniformsSoviet UnionEasternUnderestimatedRegularityUzbekistan Author:Garry Kasparov
“I think Martin Luther King would always keep track of collective insurgencies among poor and working people. He was concerned about the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union, for example. He would have closely followed the Arab Spring. And certainly he would be very critical of the massive surveillance state that has emerged in America in the last five to 10 years. He would have approved of the movements trying to gain some accountability in U.S. foreign policy, such as drones being (used) on innocent people. I think he would march against drones.” PeopleThinkingTryingYearsStatesWould BeLastsAmericaUsedPoorFivePolicyExampleMovementKingsSpringGainsConcernedUnionsTrackJewCriticalInnocentCollectivesTreatmentAccountabilityMarchMassiveSovietForeign PolicySoviet UnionLutherSurveillanceApprovedDronesArab SpringInsurgencySurveillance State Author:Cornel West
“The thing that should most concern us is a shift in American foreign policy. We have had a bipartisan belief in American foreign policy based on the post-World War II institutions that believed in democratic global world, which Russia and the Soviet Union was often seen as hostile to. And most Republicans and Democrats have always basically believed in this world order. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and maybe Marine Le Pen do not agree with this basic structure of the world.” WorldShouldWarOrderBeliefPolicyThis WorldTrumpRepublicanConcernAgreeInstitutionsStructureUnionsDemocraticDemocratRussiaPostsWar Of The WorldsPensSovietWorld War IiForeign PolicyWorld War ISoviet UnionHostileMarinePutinWorld OrderBipartisanAmerican Foreign Policy Author:David Brooks
“It was thought that to rally Islam against godless communism would be doing the Soviet Union a very bad turn indeed, and that, in fact, transpired. In 1985, a group of mujahedeen came to Washington and was greeted by President [Ronald] Reagan, who called them "freedom fighters."” FactsWould BeTurnsPresidentGroupsUnionsIslamFighterCommunismSovietSoviet UnionFreedom FighterPresident Ronald Reagan Author:Edward Said
“Why is it, that there's no movies, very little very little attention about the greatest Holocaust in the history of the world which was the Holocaust against Christians by the Soviet communism.And that's my point. We have a controlled media today that talks about the Holocaust, but they don't talk about the death and destruction of tens of millions of Christians...Which was a bigger Holocaust.” WorldLittlesTodayChristianAttentionMillionsMediaDestructionBiggerCommunismControlledSovietHolocaustWorld HistoryMedia Today Author:David Duke
“I don't think that the Soviet Union and China are accidents, aberrations; I think they follow from Marxism-Leninism. I think that Leninism comes out of Marx's basic convictions.” ThinkingUnionsConvictionChinaAccidentsSovietSoviet UnionMarxismAberrationMarxism Leninism Author:Murray Bookchin
“Since 9/11 the United States has been followed by countries with bad records, such as the former Soviet Union countries, into erosions of human rights. Because the United States has changed its standards it is undermining civil liberties elsewhere.” HumansHas BeensCountryStatesUnitedLibertyUnited StatesRecordsRightsChangedStandardsUnionsHuman RightsFormerSovietElsewhereSoviet UnionCivil LibertiesUnderminingErosion Author:Mary Robinson
“[Ho Chi Minh] was always conscious that conditions in China and Vietnam were not always the same. He "kowtowed" to the Chinese - as he had to the Soviet Union - in order to receive their assistance, but he quietly worked to limit those forms of influence of which he did not approve (such as the harsh forms of land reform and the Great Leap Forward). Unfortunately, he was not always successful in fending off those forms of external advice that he didn't agree with.” FormOrderSuccessfulInfluenceLandConditionsAdviceLimitsConsciousAgreeUnionsChinaReformChineseLeapVietnamSovietHarshAssistanceSoviet Union Author:William J. Duiker
“Unlike the former Soviet Union that respected the strength of West, Putin's Russia ignores talk of sanctions, claims land, and supports rebels in Ukraine with impunity.” SupportLandClaimsUnionsWestRussiaFormerRebelSovietSoviet UnionPutinUkraineSanctionsImpunity Author:Mike Pence
“A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy will begin: his finitude."” MenWellsSaidCitizensTragedyCommunismWell BeingOfficialsSovietReignFinitude Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“One of the successes of the cause of the friends of peace is the ratification of the Franco-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance.” CausesMutualSovietAssistancePactFranco Author:Joseph Stalin
“So far, the Far Eastern focal point of danger is the most active.It is possible, however, that the center of the menace may shift to Europe. Evidence of this is provided, for instance, by [Adolf] Hitler's recent interview given to a French paper. In this interview, Hitler seems to attempt to say peaceful things. But this "peacefulness" of his is so thickly interspersed with threats against France and the Soviet Union that nothing remains of the "peacefulness".” MaySeemsGivenDangerPaperEvidenceEuropeRemainsUnionsThreatActiveInstancePeacefulFranceInterviewsSovietSoviet UnionEasternMenacePeacefulnessFocal Point Author:Joseph Stalin
“If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face of surrounding states, then you are badly mistaken.” PeopleIfsThinkingStatesFacesDesireForceUnionsSovietMistakenSoviet Union Author:Joseph Stalin
“I fail to see what dangers surrounding states can see in the ideas of the Soviet people if these states are really firmly seated in their saddles.” PeopleIfsIdeasStatesFailingDangerSovietSaddles Author:Joseph Stalin
“I admit that I do not recall the speeches of Comrades [Earl] Browder and [Samuel] Darcy. I do not even recall of what they spoke. It is possible that they said something of this nature. But it was not the Soviet people who created the American Communist Party. It was created by Americans.” PeopleSaidPartySpeechSpokesCommunistSovietRecallsThey SaidComradeCommunist PartyDarcy Author:Joseph Stalin
“American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.” IdeasGovernmentWould BeOpportunityActivityResponsibleCommunistSoviet Author:Joseph Stalin
“In what do the activities of the Communist Parties consist? In what ways can they manifest themselves? These activities usually consist in the organization of working masses, in organizing meetings, demonstrations, strikes, etc. It is absolutely clear that American Communists cannot perform this in Soviet territory. The American workers are not in the U.S.S.R.” WayPartyClearActivityMassOrganizationMeetingsWorkersStrikesEtcCommunistManifestTerritorySovietDemonstrationCommunist PartyAmerican Workers Author:Joseph Stalin
“The society which we have built can in no way be termed "state socialism."The social organization which we have created can be termed a Soviet, socialist organization which has not yet been quite completed, but is in its root a socialist organization of society. The foundation of this society is public ownership.” WayStatesSocialBuiltRootsOrganizationFoundationSocialismSovietOwnershipSocialistThis SocietySocial Organization Author:Joseph Stalin
“Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.” MeanHas BeensCountryLandPlantOur CountrySovietFactoriesOwnershipSocialistReplacedTransportationMeans Of Transportation Author:Joseph Stalin
“Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants, lands, banks, means of transportation, etc., remain untouched there, and, therefore, capitalism in Germany and Italy remains in full force.” MeanForceCommonLandCapitalismRemainsPlantSocialismGermanyEtcItalianFascismSovietFactoriesOwnershipTransportationMeans Of Transportation Author:Joseph Stalin
“American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.” DemocracySovietAmerican Democracy Author:Joseph Stalin
“The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa.” DemocracyVicesEvolveSovietVice VersaAmerican Democracy Book:1934-1940 Source: 1934-1940
“We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to ensure their interests.” PeopleGivingDesireInterestLibertyAbsolutesVotingSoviet Author:Joseph Stalin
“Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.” WorldOpinionConstitutionDemocraticSoviet Author:Joseph Stalin
“Once the Eastern Bloc collapsed, what I call 'historical spontaneity' prevailed and the countries that were subject to Soviet control naturally gravitated to the West. That's where they sought their security; I don't think there was a way to avoid that. If we tried to exclude them, we would have today not one Europe, we would have three Europes: one in the West, one in the middle and one in the East, and the middle would be insecure and a tempting target. The insecurity felt [today] by Eastern Europe would be replicated on a much larger and more consequential scale.” IfsThinkingWayCountryWould BeTodayThreeFeltMiddleSubjectsSecurityEuropeHistoricalWestEastScalesInsecurityTargetSovietInsecureEasternSpontaneityTemptingEastern Europe Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“Why do you think [Russians] hacked into our election? Because they have to make sure that Donald Trump got elected so that he could help them with what I think is a huuuuge deal, not only to lift these sanctions, but to take over, y'know, all of these Soviet countries and pull 'em back into the Soviet Union, so that they could have access it to all of these resources. It's clear to me!” ThinkingKnowsCountryHelpingDealsClearTrumpResourcesElectionUnionsAccessLiftsEmsSovietSoviet UnionSanctionsHacked Author:Maxine Waters
“We have, a Democrat Party once again adding to the civility of the discourse, Maxine Waters claiming that [Donald] Trump and his people are scumbags 'cause Trump wants to help [Vladimir] Putin put the Soviet Union back together by raping a bunch of other countries and stealing their resources.” PeopleWantCountryHelpingTogetherCausesWaterPartyTrumpResourcesUnionsDemocratStealingBunchSovietOther CountriesDiscourseSoviet UnionCivilityPutinBack TogetherScumbags Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think you know what's new about this the Democrat Party not liking the Russians. That's a first. The Democrat Party not liking the idea the Soviet Union back together.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsIdeasTogetherPartyUnionsDemocratSovietSoviet UnionBack Together Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Democrat Party loved the Soviet Union! The Democrat Party in the eighties and the seventies propped up the Soviet Union.” PartyUnionsDemocratSovietSoviet UnionSeventiesEighty Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Democrat Party of the 1980s chose the Soviet Union over Ronald Reagan, in Nicaragua, and in Moscow as well. Now, all of a sudden, they don't like Russia and they don't like the Soviet Union?” WellsPartyUnionsDemocratRussiaSovietSoviet UnionMoscowNicaragua Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I have one of the strongest records in fighting for senior citizens. I led the effort to prevent cuts to Social Security. But I think for some seniors, they remember the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union. They conflated the term "democratic socialism" with communism.” ThinkingRememberFightingEvilSocialTermEffortRecordsCuttingSecurityCitizensUnionsDemocraticSocialismCommunismEmpiresStrongestSovietSeniorSoviet UnionSocial SecuritySenior CitizenDemocratic Socialism Author:Bernie Sanders
“The cry of "Make America Great Again" reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of the United States is coming to an end. For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world. In large part this is because of the success of policies followed by the United States to create an environment, a peaceful period in history in which economies could grow and countries could benefit.” WorldFirstsWarEndsCountryStatesAmericaFallGrowsUnitedUnited StatesEconomyEnvironmentCryPolicyPeriodsBenefitsFirst TimeUnionsPeacefulWar Of The WorldsSovietSoleDominantSoviet UnionSuperpowerSecond World WarComing To An End Author:Alan Bersin
“When we went to the moon and realized that the Soviet Union had no realistic plans of getting to the moon, then we stopped going to the moon.” PlansMoonUnionsRealisticSovietSoviet Union Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“NASA was invented as a response to Cold War steps. There are those who presumed that we went to the moon because we're explorers. We went to the moon because we were at war with the Soviet Union. And so when it became clear that they (Soviet Union) were not going to the moon, we're done with the moon.” WarDoneStepsClearColdMoonUnionsResponseSovietCold WarSoviet UnionNasaExplorers Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“There's so many ways in which Canada and America are inextricably connected politically, economically, socially. There's no stepping away. But at the same time, we don't have a say. Canada is a different country. Sometimes I think of it as Finland in the Soviet era. We're totally free, but we're totally free to agree, basically. If we disagree too heartily or over too sensitive an issue, then we pay a price for that.” IfsThinkingWayDifferentCountrySometimesAmericaPayIssuesAgreeConnectedErasSensitiveCanadaDisagreeSovietDifferent CountriesFinlandStepping Away Author:Bruce Cockburn
“The Soviet Union was, by the 1970s and 1980s, relatively stable and predictable. Putin's Russia is much more volatile. Nuclear policy is really in the hands of one person, or a small group of people, instead of a huge party-state apparatus. The possibility of a mistake is greater now.” PeoplePersonsStatesHandsPartyMistakeGreaterGroupsPolicyPossibilityHugeUnionsNuclearRussiaSovietStableSoviet UnionPutinPredictableSmall Groups Author:Anne Applebaum
“I don't believe in binational states. There are wonderful examples of this, prosperous multinational states: Switzerland, Switzerland and Switzerland. Everywhere else - be it Cyprus, Yugoslavia or the Soviet Union, it ended in a terrible bloodbath.” BelieveStatesWonderfulExampleTerribleUnionsDon't BelieveSovietSoviet UnionProsperousSwitzerlandMultinationalsYugoslaviaCyprus Author:Amos Oz