Soviet Union Quotes - Page 7

• I think the big tragedy of the Cuban Revolution was that it became dependent on the Soviet Union, and it became dependent on the Soviet Union under a very reactionary bureaucratic regime led by Leonid Brezhnev.

  Tariq Ali

  Thinking, Tragedy, Unions

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations and a permanent member of its Security Council.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Unions, States

  "Interview of President Vladimir V.Putin to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, m.rusemb.org.uk.

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• It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big Powers who need the United Nations for their protection. It is all the others. In this sense, the Organization is first of all their Organization and I deeply believe in the wisdom with which they will be able to use it and guide it. I shall remain in my post during the term of my office as a servant of the Organization in the interests of all those other nations, as long as they wish me to do so.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Believe, Organization, Long

  Statement to the General Assembly of the United Nations, October 03, 1960.

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• The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Wall, Firsts, Hammers

  Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1994). “The View from the Kremlin”, HarperCollins

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• I have a consistent rule: The American people should know as much about the Pentagon as the Soviet Union and China do, as much about General Motors as Ford does, and as much about City Bank as Chase Manhattan does.

  Ralph Nader

  Cities, People, Doe

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• The Soviet Union began by banishing God. The United States began as a community of people who wanted to worship God as they chose. . . Man does not live by bread alone. Those in the United States whose desire to create a strictly secular society is as strong as Lenin's was should study this Cold War lesson closely. Communism was defeated by an alliance spearheaded by 'one nation under God.'

  Richard M. Nixon

  Strong, War, Men

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• It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control over the entire Afghan territory.

  Sergei Ivanov

  Soldier, Unions, Territory

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• The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Country, Drama, Russia

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• After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system resembles the Soviet Union's gulag—the latter punished ideas, the former punishes a condition.

  David Levering Lewis

  Reading, Ideas, Color

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• We have to re-invent socialism. It can't be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition.

  Hugo Chavez

  Competition, Unions, Saws

  "Venezuela’s Chavez Closes World Social Forum with Call to Transcend Capitalism". Hugo Chavez's closing speech at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, venezuelanalysis.com. January 31, 2005.

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• 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

  Jobs, Oil, Unions

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• A missile is a missile. It makes no great difference whether you are killed by a missile fired from the Soviet Union or from Cuba.

  Elie Abel

  Differences, Cuba, Unions

  Elie Abel (1968). “The missile crisis”, Bantam Books

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• I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.

  Garry Kasparov

  Sports, Baseball, Lucky

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• Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to others, that is the Soviet Union.

  Francois Mitterrand

  People, Understanding, Unions

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• 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

  Military, Fighting, Hands

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• We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union.

  Frank Knox

  Gratitude, War, Army

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• And lastly, Chairman Khrushchev has compared the United States to a worn-out runner living on its past performance, and stated that the Soviet Union would out-produce the United States by 1970. Without wishing to trade hyperbole with the Chairman, I do suggest that he reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he his caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wall, Past, Ideas

  News Conferences, www.jfklibrary.org. June 28, 1961.

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• The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation with Communists in united fronts.

  Roger Nash Baldwin

  Unions, United Front, Cooperation

  Woody Klein, Roger Nash Baldwin (2006). “Liberties Lost: The Endangered Legacy of the ACLU”, p.11, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people everywhere - let them work together to accomplish on a worldwide scale, precisely the kind of democratic association of free people which characterizes the Soviet Union today.

  Paul Robeson

  People, Together, Want

  Daily Worker, November 15, 1945.

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• I am truly happy that I am able to travel from time to time to the USSR the country I love above all. I always have been, I am now and will always be a loyal friend of the Soviet Union.

  Paul Robeson

  Country, Loyal, Unions

  "I Love Above All, Russia,' Robeson Says". "Afro-American", p. 7, June 25, 1949.

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• When I was a kid, I was like everyone else: afraid of getting nuked. We had drills in school - Sweden was very close to the Soviet Union. There was definitely a lot of tension.

  Dolph Lundgren

  School, Kids, Sweden

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you look at my life, you can go back to the late 1930s, what I saw was, first of all, Hitler, he was going to live forever. Mussolini was in for 10,000 years. You had the Soviet Union, which was, by definition, going to last forever. There was the British empire -- nobody imagined it could come to an end. So why should one believe in any kind of permanence?

  Doris Lessing

  Believe, Years, Forever

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• We are, if territory and population be looked at together, one of the great countries of the world - a monster country, one might say, along with others such as China, India, the recent Soviet Union, and Brazil. And there is a real question as to whether "bigness" in a body politic is not an evil in itself, quite aside from the policies pursued in its name.

  George F. Kennan

  Country, Real, Countries Of The World

  "Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal and Political Philosophy". Book by George F. Kennan, p. 143, 1993.

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• Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!

  C. Wright Mills

  Democracy, Unions, Leon

  "C. Wright Mills: The Last Six Months". Saul Landau, Ramparts Magazine (pp. 49-50), August 1965.

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• The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and in Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Military, People, Political

  Statement, November 08, 1998.

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