Top 1085 Soviet Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on November 17, 2024.
For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions.
History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.
When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.
The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s.
One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party
During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison.
The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.
There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.
New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.
If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.
I love 'The Master And Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov, which is about repression in Soviet Russia in the 1930s.
Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.
We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the US-Soviet antagonisms.
Putin is sometimes described as a revanchist, seeking to recreate the Soviet Union. That is a useful shorthand, but it is not really accurate.
We were extremely prescient in that we predicted the Soviet coup before it happened. That was kind of amazing.
I remember my time growing up. It was a little bit difficult because the Soviet Union was broken.
It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace.
I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.
Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.
We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union.
The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.
This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union - and we know how successful that was.
Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.
It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.
The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained.
It would be quite wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for the activities of American Communists.
I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.
A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.
The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.
The people who built the space program - both Soviet and U.S. - were readers of science fiction.
Much of my journey in Kazakhstan was about understanding the legacy of the Soviet times and finding out what remained of nomadic.
And, gentlemen, they have not yet done so, and it is quite clear that no Americans, no people in the world probably, are going to war with the Soviet Union.
'Make America great again,' is not that different from Putin's nostalgia for the Soviet Union or tsarist Russia.
In those years, it was easier to win the Soviet Championship than a game against 'Iron Tigran'.
Just because the boogeyman of the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, it doesn't mean the world is living angelically.
It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics.
It is therefore not true that the mere existence of the Soviet Union is capable of assuring the victory of the revolution in other countries.
Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.
More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.
One of the successes of the cause of the friends of peace is the ratification of the Franco-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance.
History must give the Poles the principal credit for bringing the Soviet bloc to its knees.
I was proud of my Soviet country, of wearing Young Pioneer uniform, bombarded by my mother's Communist propaganda.
The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.
American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.
Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.
America has the best athletic programs. Even when the Soviet Union existed, that was Mickey Mouse compared to the U.S.
As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.
If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
When I was starting out in 1988, I was doing cartoons on President George H. W. Bush, Iraq and the fall of Soviet Union.
I have argued that the Soviet story is one of the interaction of speculative excess or utopian aspirations with refractory reality.
The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.
If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.
It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.
My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player.
