#russia

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#any #because #between #did #i

Where were they when the Russians went down? ↗

— Stacy Keach

#russians #went #were #where

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. ↗

— James Thurber

#between #brutal #decadence #difference #our

The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#europe #evil #principle #russian #spirit

When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis. ↗

— Anna Kournikova

#girl #hair #her #i #like

My boyfriend and I just got a projector, so we've been screening movies on the roof and projecting them against the wall next door. The last one we did, the theme was, 'The Russians are coming.' So we screened 'Red Dawn' and 'Top Gun.' ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#been #boyfriend #coming #dawn #did

The food was interesting. My background is Russian, so cheese and potatoes are my love. There was plenty of that. And fried cheese! It is really, really, really good. And really, really, really bad for you. It's like an artery on a plate. ↗

— Michelle Trachtenberg

#background #bad #cheese #food #fried

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it? ↗

— H. G. Wells

#america #attempt #avert #call #collapse

Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#approved #declaration #declared #independence #know

Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#arrest #commanders #elected #fight #give