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Soviet Quotes
On Cold War politics and a superpower's legacy.
These Soviet quotes reflect on the union's power, ideology, and eventual breakup, including its lasting effect on global grain output. See History quotes for related context.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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The Soviet Union was designed for Muscovite rule, not for division into independent republics. Yet the latter is exactly what happened in 1991 - and the Kremlin has never accepted it.
- Influence
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After the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russian influence collapsed, and Moscow came to bitterly resent the Western interventions that destroyed Mr. Hussein and Colonel Qaddafi.
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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.
- Soviet Union
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Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.
- Guest
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In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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A document was drafted in the State Department in July 1946 by an official named Samuel Klaus. This indicated that there were then 20 alleged Soviet agents, 13 alleged Communists, about a dozen sympathizers, and about 75 suspects in the department, according to the FBI.
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Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.
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Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.
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The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.
- Fabulous
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The Sandinistas are a tough bunch of guys, with a fabulous amount of Soviet Bloc equipment and Soviet Bloc advisers.
- Religion
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It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.
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