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Soviet Quotes

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

Rich Chess Soviet Soviet Union Union

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

Richard M. Nixon

Go Bathroom Toilet Nickel Soviet

It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics.

Independence Europe Soviet Going

When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a significant amount of information through Soviet foreign intelligence channels.

Intelligence Building Soviet Channels

In the fall of 1963, in Leningrad, in what was then the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the young poet Dmitry Bobyshev stole the young poet Joseph Brodsky's girlfriend.

Fall Young Girlfriend Poet Soviet

I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.

Country Soviet Soviet Union Union

The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.

World Looking Economy Joke Soviet

After the Soviet withdrawal, many Afghan Communists had rebranded themselves as Islamists and joined the mujahedeen.

Soviet Afghan Themselves Many After

Putin is sometimes described as a revanchist, seeking to recreate the Soviet Union. That is a useful shorthand, but it is not really accurate.

Sometimes Soviet Soviet Union Union

The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.

Army Soldiers Soviet Population

The breakup of the former Soviet Union has caused its grain output to plummet, but if the new republics recover economically, they could produce vast amounts of food.

Food New Soviet Soviet Union Union

America has the best athletic programs. Even when the Soviet Union existed, that was Mickey Mouse compared to the U.S.

Best Mickey Mouse America Soviet

Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union.

People Late Party Understand Soviet

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

Mom Tiger She Up Soviet Get

Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.

Soviet Writer Chinese Russian Regime

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.

J. William Fulbright

Excuses Done Soviet Greatest Us

Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.

Propaganda Soviet Textbooks

I love 19th-century Russian literature, the avant garde, the Soviet period.

Love Literature Soviet Period I Love

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

Political Party Existence Soviet

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, Reagan and Thatcher displayed Churchillian magnanimity towards Gorbachev's broken nation. Relations were never better. There was no triumphalism.

Broken Better Never Nation Soviet

Soviet moviegoers gazed enviously on the jalopy that took the Joads from Oklahoma to California. The message Russians took from 'The Grapes of Wrath': even the poorest capitalists have cars!

Richard Corliss

California Grapes Soviet Oklahoma

The Sandinistas are a tough bunch of guys, with a fabulous amount of Soviet Bloc equipment and Soviet Bloc advisers.

Tough Fabulous Soviet Equipment Guys

And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?

Samuel P. Huntington

Question Big West Soviet Course

Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.

Good Movies Soviet Soviet Union Even

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