196 Soviet Quotes for You to Enjoy

If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies instead of the land of corpses. John C. Wright

Joy Dancing Corpses Atheism Would Solved Instead Empire Woe Been Soviet Soviet Union Human Land Then Union

All the Baltic countries have been steadfast in support of allies of the United States since they gained their independence following the fall of the Soviet Union and have continued to be supportive in the ongoing war on terror. John Shimkus

If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this. Jose Padilha

You Capitalism People Dictatorship Controlling Brazil Think Everything Liberating Those Right-Wing Neither Marxism Take True Understand Lot Brains Up Soviet Soviet Union Grew Then Union Czechoslovakia Things Two

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot. Joseph Brodsky

Me You Judge Country Enough System Would Would-Be Leave Versus Soviet Soviet Union Jury Cannot Prefer Union Twelve Basis

Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. Joseph Brodsky

Losing Poet Citizenship Russian Although Am Cease Soviet

The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared. Joseph Rotblat

Communism Before Collapse Weapons Brought Having Rationale Disappeared Disaster Arms Arms Race However Chief Task Soviet Any Soviet Union Stop After Disintegration Race Union Utter Nuclear Nuclear Weapons

During the Cold War, tensions between the West and the Soviet Union affected virtually all countries worldwide. As a result, throughout Latin America, guerrilla groups emerged, seeking to destabilize military dictatorships and attain democracy, freedom, and policy reform - goals that they believed could not be achieved peacefully. Juan Manuel Santos

War Freedom Democracy Result Goals Military Cold Cold War Worldwide Guerrilla Virtually Latin Latin America Seeking Emerged Could Attain Throughout Tensions Between Countries Policy Affected West Dictatorships Reform America Soviet Soviet Union Achieved Union Groups Peacefully Believed

During 1989, my mother, who was exceedingly good at finding these free programs - you know, we were on welfare, just trying to get through - but she would find these amazing programs. She sent me to the Soviet Union at the age of 12 to go study in the forest of then-Leningrad with 50 other Soviet kids. Kehinde Wiley

Good Me You Age Welfare Mother Amazing Free Other Programs Kids Would Find Finding Exceedingly Through Study Know She Go Were Forest Get Trying Soviet Soviet Union Just Sent Union Who

My parents and my brother and I left the Soviet Union in 1981. I was six, and Dima was sixteen, and that made all the difference. I became an American, whereas Dima remained essentially Russian. Keith Gessen

Made Parents All The Difference Brother Russian Remained Became Left American Soviet Soviet Union Six Essentially Sixteen Difference Whereas Union

After Stalin died, the Soviet Union began inching toward the world again. The ban on jazz was lifted. Ernest Hemingway was published; the Pushkin Museum in Moscow hosted an exhibit of the works of Picasso. Keith Gessen

My mother was a doctor, and I grew up with her in a little apartment belonging to my grandmother, because the Soviet Union never saw fit to let our family have its own apartment. Kersti Kaljulaid

Family Doctor Mother Own Our Saw Never Because Fit Up Soviet Soviet Union Grew Apartment Little Grandmother Union Her Belonging

For many years prior to the 1990s, European integration was embraced and supported by a large majority of citizens. A united Europe, bound by commonly-held democratic values, was perceived as an essential and effective buffer against the Soviet empire. A united Europe made a repeat of the First and Second World Wars almost unthinkable. Klaus Schwab

World Values Made First Citizens Embraced Perceived Almost Supported Bound Empire Unthinkable Democratic Buffer Majority Prior Repeat Years Integration Effective Soviet Essential Against Europe Wars European Large Many United Second World Wars

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and China are more likely to view each other as competitors if not adversaries. But the die has not been cast. The best possible outcome is a new understanding that when they cannot cooperate, they will coexist and allow all countries in the Pacific to grow and thrive. Lee Kuan Yew

Best Will Thrive Understanding Other States Collapse Possible Outcome More Cast Allow Countries New Adversaries Likely Been Die Soviet Soviet Union After Cannot Pacific China View Union Each Grow Cooperate United United States Coexist Competitors

As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion. M. Stanton Evans

Failure Political Evil Focus Despite Charges Alleged Myriad Factual Never Supposed Well Well Known Known Without His Existed End Accusation Soviet Lists In The End McCarthyism Subversion Agent Produce Communist Communists Bogus Who Even Basis

Soviet expansionism in Europe, the battle for control of China, and the 1950 invasion of South Korea would shatter once-euphoric dreams of post-war cooperation with the Kremlin. M. Stanton Evans

Dreams Battle Control Would Post-War Invasion Shatter Korea Kremlin South South Korea Soviet China Europe Cooperation

When the Soviet Union collapsed, the television businesses found it was easier to hire 16- or 18-year-olds and teach them everything from the beginning rather than re-teach the old-school folk. Margarita Simonyan

Beginning Everything Easier Collapsed Television Folk Rather Hire Than Soviet Soviet Union Them Teach Union Businesses Found

Was the Soviet Union reformable? I would say no. They said, 'Okay, the Soviet Union isn't working.' They would say, 'No, it's great. We just need democracy, political pluralism, private property.' And then there was no Soviet Union. The European Union is the same. Marine Le Pen

To most people in the U.K., 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 U.S. and Soviet space efforts to a scale that Western Europe had no motive to match. Martin Rees

War People Space Perception Cold Cold War Valid Indeed Respects Scale Perceived Superpower Throughout Rivalry Had Primarily Most Match Does NASA Motive Western Up Western Europe Efforts Soviet Space Exploration Exploration Europe Many Many Respects

The origins of my career as a peace mediator can be found from my childhood years. I was born in the city of Viipuri, then still part of Finland. We lost Viipuri when the Soviet Union attacked my country. Along with 400,000 fellow Karelians, I became an eternally displaced person in the rest of Finland. Martti Ahtisaari

Peace Rest Country Lost City Born Attacked Finland Part Along Fellow Became Still Years Person Soviet Soviet Union Childhood Eternally Then Union Displaced Found Mediator Origins Career

Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War. Mary Landrieu

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

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