Soviet Quotes - Page 9

• My goal was to show the history of the end of the Cold War through both sides - the U.S. side and the Soviet side. I really felt that especially the Soviet side of the story hadn't been well told because we didn't know.

  David E. Hoffman

  War, Goal, Stories

  "'Next to Normal' wins Pulitzer Prize for drama" by Michael Kuchwara, www.today.com. April 13, 2010.

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• The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the whole body of forests, mineral deposits, lakes, rivers and so on.

  William Z. Foster

  Country, Lakes, Government

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• All the Baltic countries have been steadfast in support of allies of the United States since they gained their independence following the fall of the Soviet Union and have continued to be supportive in the ongoing war on terror.

  John Shimkus

  Country, War, Fall

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• Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.

  Natan Sharansky

  Army, Thinking, People

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• I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.

  Karen Morley

  Song, Kings, Unions

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• One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Party, Principles, Literature

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• The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

  Boris Spassky

  Player, Unions, Chess

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• Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

  Joseph Stalin

  Russia, Blood, History

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• If surrender could have been brought about in May, 1945, or even in June or July, before the entrance of Soviet Russia into the [Pacific] war and the use of the atomic bomb, the world would have been the gainer.

  Joseph Grew

  War, June, Russia

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• We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim is to fight against the enemies of the Soviet Government and of the new order of life. We judge quickly. In most cases only a day passes between the apprehension of the criminal and his sentence. When confronted with evidence criminals in almost every case confess; and what argument can have greater weight than a criminal's own confession.

  Felix Dzerzhinsky

  Fighting, Order, Government

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• Of course, in no case would we allow the creation of a regional union in the Balkans, directed against the Soviet Union and Bulgaria.

  Todor Zhivkov

  Unions, Creation, Balkans

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• We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it's total servility to Putin. Otherwise, it can be death, the bullet, poison, or trial -whatever our special services, Putin's guard dogs, see fit.

  Anna Politkovskaya

  Dog, Ignorance, Special

  "Poisoned by Putin: The horror of Beslan was made still worse by the intimidation of Russia's servile media". www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2004.

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• We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.

  Andrzej Wajda

  People, Waiting, Culture

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• If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses.

  John C. Wright

  Atheist, Land, Dancing

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• Wherever you go, whether it be a college campus or the New York Times or ABC News or Venezuela or Cuba or the former Soviet Union, it's amazing how the speech codes and the trying to shut up dissent is a defining aspect of the left because they believe so firmly in their utopian ideals that anyone who would disagree with that utopia is an enemy of the state, and they treat them as such.

  Andrew Breitbart

  New York, Believe, College

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, The Party can always find you!

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Funny, Party, Russia

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• I cannot see that any rational American. . . could conceivably try to fulfill the major national purposes of the United States through the United Nations. It would be comparable to the United States seeking to pass its legislation through the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

  Charles Lichenstein

  Trying, Purpose, United States

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• The first man-made satellite to orbit the earth was named Sputnik. The first living creature in space was Laika. The first rocket to the Moon carried a red flag. The first photograph of the far side of the Moon was made with a Soviet camera. If a man orbits the earth this year his name will be Ivan.

  John F. Kennedy

  Future, Moon, Men

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• It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union, who managed the Cold War with meticulous care in retrospect. Imagine the European diplomats of 1914 or 1938 armed with nuclear weapons. It is easy to believe they would not have been as cautious.

  George Friedman

  War, Believe, Two

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• If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Korea, Cold

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• What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies?

  Ronald Reagan

  War, People, What If

  Ronald Reagan (2011). “An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography”, p.494, Simon and Schuster

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• Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also carry infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe through Italy and France, already threatened by the strongest domestic Communist parties in Western Europe. The Soviet Union was playing one of the greatest gambles in history at minimal cost. It did not need to will all the possibilities. Even one or two offered immense gains. We and we alone were in a position to break up the play.

  Dean Acheson

  War, Party, Two

  "Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department". Book by Dean Acheson, 1969.

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• To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United States is constantly denouncing the Soviet Union in the United Nations and elsewhere. This point will not be lost on the rest of the world, nor on our own consciences.

  J. William Fulbright

  War, Pigs, Giving

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• Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs. Many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  War, Poor Quality, Achievement

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Ernest W. Lefever (1989). “Perestroika: how new is Gorbachev's new thinking? : Mikhail Gorbachev's views and responses from Zbigniew Brezinski ... [and others]”, Ethics & Public Policy Center

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• Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Army, Evil, Police

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