Soviet Quotes
On Cold War politics and a superpower's legacy.
These Soviet quotes reflect on the union's power, ideology, and eventual breakup, including its lasting effect on global grain output. See History quotes for related context.
Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.
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The Soviet Union was designed for Muscovite rule, not for division into independent republics. Yet the latter is exactly what happened in 1991 - and the Kremlin has never accepted it.
After the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russian influence collapsed, and Moscow came to bitterly resent the Western interventions that destroyed Mr. Hussein and Colonel Qaddafi.
Culture Quotes
The breakup of the former Soviet Union has caused its grain output to plummet, but if the new republics recover economically, they could produce vast amounts of food.
Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.
In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
A document was drafted in the State Department in July 1946 by an official named Samuel Klaus. This indicated that there were then 20 alleged Soviet agents, 13 alleged Communists, about a dozen sympathizers, and about 75 suspects in the...
Emotion Quotes
Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.
Brits are very, very expressive, whereas the Soviet and Eastern European way is much more stern, stone-faced. Vladimir Putin-esque in some way.
The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.
The Sandinistas are a tough bunch of guys, with a fabulous amount of Soviet Bloc equipment and Soviet Bloc advisers.
History Quotes
It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.
The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.
After the Soviet withdrawal, many Afghan Communists had rebranded themselves as Islamists and joined the mujahedeen.
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