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The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. — Vladimir Putin

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

He who does not regret the break-up of the Soviet Union has no heart; he who wants to revive it in its previous form has no head. — Vladimir Putin

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church — Bertrand Russell

We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union. — Frank Knox

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. — Rose Bird

I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union. — Robert Dallek

In the Soviet Union every worker is a government worker, and they have a saying: As long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work. — Tom Clancy

The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations. — Mikhail Kalinin

The only conflict that is possible in Soviet culture is the conflict between good and best. — Andrei Zhdanov

Poppe, once a leading figure at a scientific research institute, found a job as a swimming pool attendant — Victor Sebestyen

The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere. — Barton Gellman

Nothing like that warm and fuzzy Soviet architecture ... Pretty much as close to the Klingon home world as you're gonna get. — Josh Gates

During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison. — Anatoly Chubais

Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

If we look at where relations between the Soviet Union and Germany were in 1945 and where we stand now, then we have achieved so much. — Angela Merkel

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union. — Aldrich Ames

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness. — Svetlana Alliluyeva

I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball. — Garry Kasparov

The Sandinistas are a tough bunch of guys, with a fabulous amount of Soviet Bloc equipment and Soviet Bloc advisers. — Elliott Abrams

The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon — Nikita Khrushchev

When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years. — Alex North

For more than five years, I'd made little progress with my efforts at quiet diplomacy - for one thing, the Soviet leaders kept dying on me. — Ronald Reagan

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then. — Ken Follett

My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army. — Amity Gaige

The addiction to the Soviet myth is as tenacious and difficult to cure as any other addiction. — Arthur Koestler

And we, from the whole of our life experience there, have concluded that there is only one way to withstand violence: with firmness. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world. — Garry Kasparov

Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime. — Salman Rushdie

We're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell. — Ruta Sepetys

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey

In Soviet-Russia the Jew is forging the tool with which he wants to enslave Europe. — Julius Streicher

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy. — Anatoly Chubais

American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into the other. — J. Stalin

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army. — Vladimir Lenin

Freedom had no place in the Soviet System. Freedom was another word for anarchy, and that wouldn't do at all. — Mal Peet

In Soviet Russia, party always finds you! — Yakov Smirnoff

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education. — Vladimir Putin

Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition. — Sergei Lukyanenko

Unlike the Soviet Communist party, the Chinese Communist party chose to introduce capitalism. — Martin Jacques

I can't imagine any fairminded future person feeling there was an important moral difference between the Soviet gulag and the American one. — Benjamin Kunkel

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown. — Dalai Lama

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work. — Frank Zappa

Soviet imperialism's as bad as American capitalism. — David Mitchell

The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross. — Fulton J. Sheen

You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget. — Tom DeLay

I grew up a little girl in the Soviet Union playing at a small sports club. Tennis gave me my life. — Anna Kournikova

Despite Soviet 'defeat' in 1991, the ideas associated with Communism remain shockingly reputable throughout what we still know as the Free World. — Diana West

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. — Vera Farmiga

One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party — Nikita Khrushchev

Here a man can live. All right, it's a 'special' camp. So what? Does it bother you to wear a number? They don't weigh anything, those numbers. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The ability to discuss things was still the most highly valued commodity in the Soviet Union. — Masha Gessen

Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive. — Paul Samuelson

He's got more red flags than Soviet Russia. — Kresley Cole

It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.' — Mikhail Gorbachev

In order to become the chisel that breaks the marble inside us, the artist must first become the hammer. [Soviet censor of paintings and photos] — Anthony Marra

History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union. — Henry L. Stimson

I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations. — Matt Stone

When I was starting out in 1988, I was doing cartoons on President George H. W. Bush, Iraq and the fall of Soviet Union. — Steve Breen

To be Russian was to be pessimistic; to be Soviet was to be optimistic. — Julian Barnes

When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility. — Jesse Jackson

If you can survive soviet union you will survive anywhere — Sunday Adelaja

The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development. — Alexander Kotov

(The Soviet space agency did not traditionally give cosmonauts steak and eggs before launch; it gave them a one-liter enema.) Fahey, — Mary Roach

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion. — Billy Graham

Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments. — Norman Mailer

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union. — Lee H. Hamilton

You don't have to be very bright to carry a handbarrow. So the squad leader gave such work to people who'd been in positions of authority. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Indeed, the U.N. is the main Soviet espionage center in this country. — Jack Anderson

In America, you can always find a party.
In Soviet Russia, Party always find you! — Yakov Smirnoff

Shukhov had figured it all out. If he didn't sign he'd be shot. If he signed he'd still get a chance to live. So he signed. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents. — Andrew Young

At this moment what is demanded by the prevailing orthodoxy is an uncritical admiration of Soviet Russia. Everyone — George Orwell

Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union. — Newt Gingrich

If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly choose the Soviet Union. — Graham Greene

Soviet propaganda is remarkably effective and the Americans are even more remarkably stupid. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union. — Giovanni Agnelli

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay! — Andrei Platonov

Cold War. China, though technically an ally of the Soviet Union, was in quest of maneuvering — Henry Kissinger

In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did. — P. J. O'Rourke

An army of the people is invincible! — Mao Zedong

The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force. — Henry Kissinger

Of course, Soviet people would like to see the face of surrounding states changed, but that is the business of the surrounding states. — J. Stalin

A missile is a missile. It makes no great difference whether you are killed by a missile fired from the Soviet Union or from Cuba. — Elie Abel

I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream. — Sergei Bubka

Carter is the best President the Soviet Union ever had. — William Safire

The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say. — P. J. O'Rourke

Of course, in no case would we allow the creation of a regional union in the Balkans, directed against the Soviet Union and Bulgaria. — Todor Zhivkov

In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse. An optimist thinks maybe they can. — Abel Aganbegyan

With a singlemindedness common only to former Soviet interior-ministry troops and first-year law students — Gary Shteyngart

Textbooks are Soviet propaganda. — Jerry Falwell

In America, your job determines your marks. In Soviet Russia, Marx determine your job! — Yakov Smirnoff

I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches. — Mohammed Daoud Khan

Soviet people are better off materially and richer spiritually. — Leonid Brezhnev

The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire. — Chalmers Johnson

In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it. — Vagit Alekperov

Czechoslovakia provided Soviet Russia with landing fields for aircraft, thereby increasing the threat against Germany. — Adolf Hitler

I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions. — Vladimir Potanin