Soviet Quotes - Page 18

• My mom grew up in the Soviet Bloc, and she was a Tiger Mom. We didn't get away with much.

  Ivanka Trump

  Mom, Grew Up, Get Away

  Interview with Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 16, 2011.

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• If Vladimir Putin is conscious and aware of his standing in the world economy, he has to understand this aggression in Crimea is not helping the reputation of Russia as a modern nation where you can do business. He's back to the old Soviet ways and a lot of folks are going to hold back and pull back as a result of it. I think he may have second thoughts.

  Kelly Ayotte

  Thinking, World, Helping

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Carter is the best President the Soviet Union ever had.

  William Safire

  President, Unions, Carter

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• Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads - they are not there accidentally. Soviet infantry manual, issued in the 1930's Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

  Garry Wills

  Girl, Horse, War

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• In the midst of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Putin invaded the Republic of Georgia. Let's call it for what it is. Here is Vladimir Putin with a failing Soviet franchise. And when he can't win the hearts and minds of his neighboring nations, he uses energy extortion, masked gunmen and barbed wire.

  Kelly Ayotte

  War, Heart, Winning

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• In the past, foreign intervention was obviously a major problem. Foreign domination, or if not domination, interference. But that has ended. There is no foreign domination; there is minimal foreign interference. The Cold War has ended. The Soviet Union no longer exists. The United States is showing minimal and diminishing interest in the Muslim world. They now have to confront their own problems. The old excuses are gone. The old justifications are gone and therefore the anger of people is turning increasingly against their own rulers.

  Bernard Lewis

  War, Past, People

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• Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war in Afghanistan, unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Breakup, War, Conflict

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• Every parent is wondering, how do we keep our kids safe? We need a commander in chief who does what Ronald Reagan did with communism, which is he set out a global strategy to defeat Soviet communism.

  Ted Cruz

  Kids, Parent, Doe

  CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• Free enterprise democracy has proven the best system by far for maximizing freedom, prosperity, and happiness. Dictatorship, Soviet style communism, and hereditary aristocracy have proven about the worst environments for people to achieve all three of these goals.

  James Stone

  People, Goal, Style

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Russians want to drill in the Arctic. Rex Tillerson has negotiated a multibillion-dollar deal with Exxon to do that drilling. They can't get the equipment, the supplies and all that they need until the sanctions are lifted. They want Donald Trump; not only will he support lifting those sanctions, he also will turn a blind eye to the expansion that Putin is trying to do. He does not care about them having invade Crimea and does not care whether or not this egotistical maniac, Vladimir Putin, is attempting to reunite the whole Soviet Union.

  Maxine Waters

  Eye, Support, Trying

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The second touchstone for America I think unquestionably was pushing to conclusion the program we had with the Russians to control the Soviet nuclear arsenal. I tend to think that more than anything else, that will come back to haunt us.

  Michael Scheuer

  Thinking, America, Nuclear

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In 1980 I was a red kid and no one could have said anything bad about the Soviet Union. At least this is how my grandfather used to remember me. Around 1981, I became a pro-capitalist person and it stuck.

  Lubos Motl

  Kids, Grandfather, Unions

  "Helmut Schmidt on global warming". Lubos Motl's blog, motls.blogspot.nl. June 5, 2007.

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• First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.

  Bobby Fischer

  Real, Mean, Firsts

  "The Fischer King" by William Nack, www.si.com. September 14, 1992.

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• The new European Soviet.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Historical

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• There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Europe, Presidential Debate, Domination

  Televised presidential debate, 6 Oct. 1976

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• Russia is actively using gas diplomacy for its expansion over the ex-Soviet space in a bid to become a regional superpower.

  Lilia Shevtsova

  Russia, Space, Expansion

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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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• If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.

  Jose Padilha

  Thinking, Wings, Two

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• I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.

  Pierre Laval

  Believe, Europe, Understanding

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• Unlike the American President's chronic problem of finding ways to give away the country's permanent economic surplus, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's was the problem of rationing permanent scarcity.

  Elie Abel

  Country, Giving, President

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• I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

  Daniel Silva

  War, Reading, Russian History

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• Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees.

  Ernest Mandel

  Self, Organization, People

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

  Richard Perle

  War, Men, Ideas

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• I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.

  Alexander Lebed

  Grandchildren, Men, Different

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