196 Soviet Quotes for You to Enjoy

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible. Merab Mamardashvili

Man Changes Progressive Those Degradation Invisible Perhaps Soviet Irreversible Breaking Product Hard Chain

Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve. Michael Gove

Education Achievement Secretaries Those Exams Devalued Like Know Became Because Tractor Real Praising Were Labor Soviet Achievements Children Unfortunately Production Ground Measures Figures Deserve

In the Cold War, a lot of Soviet actions could be explained as extensions of Czarist imperial ambitions, but that didn't stop us from studying Marxism in theory and Communism in practice to better understand that adversary. Michael Hayden

Journalism took me around the world. I worked in London for ten years and reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union, the troubles in Northern Ireland, and the first Gulf War. Michael Robotham

War Me World First Took Collapse Gulf Gulf War London Ten Ten Years Troubles Journalism Around Years Ireland Reported Soviet Northern Soviet Union Northern Ireland Worked Union

What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward. Michele Bachmann

People Fear Our States Recognize India See Rise Unstoppable Loss Soviet Going Soviet Union China Decline Union Forward United United States

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy. Mikhail Gorbachev

Government Democracy People Unconditional Soviet Want

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

Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences. New Yorkers will remember well the end result of clandestine U.S. support for Islamic militants against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the 1980s: 9/11. Nick Turse

Result Remember Will Unforeseen Consequences Secret Tendency Support New Disastrous Well Forces Islamic Nasty End End Result Soviet Soviet Union Afghanistan New Yorkers Against Produce Unintended Union

Looking back as an historian, I find myself having great respect for Ronald Reagan's consistency: his absolute conviction that the Soviet Union - the only competing world empire at the time - was bound to collapse! Nigel Hamilton

Time Myself Great Respect World Consistency Looking Looking Back Conviction Back Collapse Find Having Only Absolute Great Respect Bound Empire Reagan His Historian Soviet Soviet Union Union Competing

In 1945, when the Second World War technically ends in Poland, the incoming Soviet army liberates some groups of people but begins to oppress the general population, in some ways more harshly than it had happened before. Norman Davies

War Army People World Technically Before Liberates Ways Harshly Some General More Had Poland Oppress Than Begins Soviet Ends Happened Groups Population Incoming Second World War Second World War

Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy again. He was a musician. I start to travel with him through Europe also and around the former Soviet Union. Olga Korbut

Life Future Travel Happy New Life Husband Met Musician Through He New Also Him Around Soviet Soviet Union Again Former Then Union Europe Lucky Start Started

If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans. Omar Bongo

Fight Military Other States Direct Supported Armed Hand Trained Soviet Soviet Union African Experienced Confrontation Union United United States

I have argued that the Soviet story is one of the interaction of speculative excess or utopian aspirations with refractory reality. Paul Craig Roberts

Reality Argued Excess Soviet Interaction Story Aspirations Utopian Speculative

The Soviet Union was a partial check on capitalist looting in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. However, with the Soviet collapse, capitalist looting intensified during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama regimes. Paul Craig Roberts

Collapse Obama Partial Check Looting However Clinton Intensified Soviet Soviet Union Regimes Bush Capitalist Union

1989 was such a very, very important year in Europe. The wall fell, the Soviet Union was crumbling, and so many things happened - in 15 minutes, the world changed. Per Petterson

World Important Year Changed Minutes Crumbling Fell Very Wall Soviet Soviet Union Happened Union Europe Many Things

When I came to Congress in 1993, the traditional idea that all politics stopped at the water's edge was alive and well. Americans had been unified for the previous four decades against the threat from the former Soviet Union and communism. Pete Hoekstra

Politics Communism Water Edge Congress Alive Threat Previous Had Idea Well Came Traditional Been Decades American Soviet Soviet Union Stopped Former Against Unified Union Four

All serious elite institutions, from the great London clubs to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, have always made sure that most people can't get into them. That's the point. Peter Hitchens

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