Soviet Quotes - Page 15

• Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment.

  Chris Christie

  Dream, Empires, Dictator

  "Chris Christie: 'It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now'". Chris Christie's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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• It is people who are violent, rather than "religions"; and since we secularised our politics we have had two major world wars, the Holocaust, the Soviet Gulag, and the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - none of which were inspired by religion. If we want to understand the dangers of our world, we can no longer accept the old received ideas.

  Karen Armstrong

  War, Ideas, Two

  "A conversation with Karen Armstrong". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs, but basically changes have happened that were considered unthinkable a decade ago.

  Dalai Lama

  Unions, Middle East, Looks

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The organizing principle of the United States defensive foreign policy had been opposition to the Soviet Union. There is no more Soviet Union.

  Mark Shields

  Principles, United States, Unions

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Chinese did after all decide that the Soviet Union was a greater threat than the United States and decided to come to terms with the United States when Nixon visits China.

  Vijay Prashad

  Chinese, United States, Unions

  "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

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• NATO and the USA wanted a complete victory over the Soviet Union. They wanted to sit on the throne in Europe alone.

  Vladimir Putin

  Europe, Usa, Victory

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The recent past is full of diverse examples of writers - Mahfouz in Egypt, Pamuk in Turkey, and more interestingly, Pasternak in the Soviet Union - who have conducted their arguments with their societies and its political arrangements through their art in subtle, oblique ways. They didn't always have the license to make bold pronouncements about freedom, democracy, Islam, and liberalism, but they exerted another kind of moral authority through their work.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Art, Past, Egypt

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We have, a Democrat Party once again adding to the civility of the discourse, Maxine Waters claiming that [Donald] Trump and his people are scumbags 'cause Trump wants to help [Vladimir] Putin put the Soviet Union back together by raping a bunch of other countries and stealing their resources.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Party, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Why do you think [Russians] hacked into our election? Because they have to make sure that Donald Trump got elected so that he could help them with what I think is a huuuuge deal, not only to lift these sanctions, but to take over, y'know, all of these Soviet countries and pull 'em back into the Soviet Union, so that they could have access it to all of these resources. It's clear to me!

  Maxine Waters

  Country, Thinking, Ems

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face of surrounding states, then you are badly mistaken.

  Joseph Stalin

  Thinking, People, Desire

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• So far, the Far Eastern focal point of danger is the most active.It is possible, however, that the center of the menace may shift to Europe. Evidence of this is provided, for instance, by [Adolf] Hitler's recent interview given to a French paper. In this interview, Hitler seems to attempt to say peaceful things. But this "peacefulness" of his is so thickly interspersed with threats against France and the Soviet Union that nothing remains of the "peacefulness".

  Joseph Stalin

  Europe, Peaceful, Paper

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• One of the successes of the cause of the friends of peace is the ratification of the Franco-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance.

  Joseph Stalin

  Causes, Pact, Franco

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• A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy will begin: his finitude."

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Tragedy, Reign

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• Unlike the former Soviet Union that respected the strength of West, Putin's Russia ignores talk of sanctions, claims land, and supports rebels in Ukraine with impunity.

  Mike Pence

  Russia, Ukraine, Land

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• [Ho Chi Minh] was always conscious that conditions in China and Vietnam were not always the same. He "kowtowed" to the Chinese - as he had to the Soviet Union - in order to receive their assistance, but he quietly worked to limit those forms of influence of which he did not approve (such as the harsh forms of land reform and the Great Leap Forward). Unfortunately, he was not always successful in fending off those forms of external advice that he didn't agree with.

  William J. Duiker

  Successful, Order, Land

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.

  Leon Trotsky

  Doe, Needs, World

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• From our perspective now, there is a not a huge understanding about the totalitarian Communism that Soviet Russia practiced during the 1950s - it was an atrocious system.

  Jay Roach

  Russia, Perspective, Understanding

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The collapse of the Soviet bloc ended the massive subsidies that had kept the Cuban economy afloat. The once-vaunted education and health care systems fell into disrepair. Fidel Castro's stubbornness, meanwhile, made political and economic change difficult in Cuba.

  Tom Gjelten

  Political, Subsidies, Care

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The naive thing I suppose is simply that we thought, in the words of Francis Fukuyama, that we had reached the end of history and we were entering a brave new world minus the Soviet Union where everything was going to be peaches and cream.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Brave New World, Entering, Unions

  Source: www.ign.com

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• We were extremely prescient in that we predicted the Soviet coup before it happened. That was kind of amazing.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Kind, Coups, Happened

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I fail to see what dangers surrounding states can see in the ideas of the Soviet people if these states are really firmly seated in their saddles.

  Joseph Stalin

  Ideas, People, Failing

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• I admit that I do not recall the speeches of Comrades [Earl] Browder and [Samuel] Darcy. I do not even recall of what they spoke. It is possible that they said something of this nature. But it was not the Soviet people who created the American Communist Party. It was created by Americans.

  Joseph Stalin

  Party, People, Speech

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• Once the Eastern Bloc collapsed, what I call 'historical spontaneity' prevailed and the countries that were subject to Soviet control naturally gravitated to the West. That's where they sought their security; I don't think there was a way to avoid that. If we tried to exclude them, we would have today not one Europe, we would have three Europes: one in the West, one in the middle and one in the East, and the middle would be insecure and a tempting target. The insecurity felt [today] by Eastern Europe would be replicated on a much larger and more consequential scale.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Country, Insecure, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearworld.com

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• The challenge is whether China as a rising country, the United States as the superpower, can develop a cooperative relationship in this period before nationalism becomes so dominant in China as a substitute for communism, and a kind of self-righteous isolationism in this country that substitutes China for the Soviet Union.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Self, Challenges

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.

  Joseph Stalin

  World, Opinion, Constitution

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