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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
I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.
— Robert Dallek
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
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
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
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
Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
— Vladimir Lenin
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
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
I grew up a little girl in the Soviet Union playing at a small sports club. Tennis gave me my life.
— Anna Kournikova
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
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
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
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
Carter is the best President the Soviet Union ever had.
— William Safire
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
