Soviet Union Quotes - Page 8

• Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely? Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet Union or the peoples' democracies.

  Paul Robeson

  Fighting, People, Democracy

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we.

  Simon Sinek

  Country, War, America

  "Could Haiti Become A Terrorist Haven? Only America Can Decide" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2010.

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• After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  People, Unions, Soviet

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• If China's expansion into Africa and Russia's into Latin America and the former Soviet Union are any indication, Silicon Valley's ability to expand globally will be severely limited, if only because Beijing and Moscow have no qualms about blending politics and business.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Latin, Qualms About, America

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• In short, Israel is the measure of our failings and our incompetence. We have waited for a great leader for years, but none came; we have waited for a mighty military victory, but we were defeated roundly; we have waited for outside powers (the United States or, in its time, the Soviet Union), but none came to our aid. The one thing we have not tried in all seriousness has been to rely on OURSELVES: until we do that with a full commitment to success there is no chance that we can advance towards self-determination and freedom from aggression.

  Edward Said

  Determination, Military, Commitment

  "The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After".

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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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• With Yeltsin, the Soviet Union broke apart, the country was totally mismanaged, the constitution was not respected by the regions of Russia. The army, education and health systems collapsed. People in the West quietly applauded, dancing with and around Yeltsin. I conclude therefore that we should not pay too much attention to what the West is saying.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Army, Russia

  "Gorbachev: Soviet Union 'should have been preserved'". Interview with Louise Branson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 5, 2006.

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• In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

  Tom Clancy

  Photography, Looks, Unions

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.

  George Galloway

  Thinking, Support, Unions

  "Saddam and me". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2002.

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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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• We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and
  businessmen. Thirty years ago, no one could have foreseen the huge expansion of the Vietnam War, wage and price controls, two oil shocks, the resignation of a president, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a one-day drop in the Dow of 508 points, or treasury bill yields fluctuating between 2.8% and 17.4%.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Yield, Years

  Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 7, 1995.

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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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• The first gold medal we had won for the Soviet Union. This one we won for each other.

  Ekaterina Gordeeva

  Gold, Unions, Firsts

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• The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Unions, Emigration, Humanitarian

  "In Tapes, Nixon Rails About Jews and Blacks" by Adam Nagourney, www.nytimes.com. December 10, 2010.

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• It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.

  George F. Kennan

  Russia, Usa, America

  "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," Foreign Affairs, July 1947

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• Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the KGB officers that I was dealing with.

  Aldrich Ames

  Hurt, Ideas, Kgb

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• I have information about things that our government has lied to us about. I know. For example, to say that since the fall of the Soviet Union we ceased all of our intimate relationship with Bin Laden and the Taliban - those things can be proven as lies, very easily, based on the information they classified in my case, because we did carry very intimate relationship with these people, and it involves Central Asia, all the way up to September 11.

  Sibel Edmonds

  Lying, Fall, Government

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• We know what we want. To us it means nothing that there is a Soviet Union somewhere in the world, for the sake of whose peace and tranquility the workers of Germany and China were sacrificed to Fascist barbarians by Stalin. We want revolution here in Spain, right now, not maybe after the next European war. We are giving Hitler and Mussolini far more worry with our revolution than the whole Red Army of Russia. We are setting an example to the German and Italian working class on how to deal with Fascism.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  War, Mean, Army

  The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

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• I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

  Aldrich Ames

  Cia Agents, Names, Unions

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• It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Unions, Study, Economic

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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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• There used to be the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. There used to be Soviet troops in the GDR. And we must honestly admit that they were occupation troops, which remained in Germany after WWII under the guise of allied troops. Now these occupation troops are gone, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and the Warsaw Pact is no more. There is no Soviet threat, but NATO and U.S. troops are still in Europe. What for?

  Vladimir Putin

  Europe, Gone, Occupation

  Source: russialist.org

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