#soviet

The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#back #game #hit #i #i think

It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#free world #long #recognise #regime #see

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

#confrontations #direct #experienced #fight #hand

So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it. ↗

— Ralph Boston

#anything #athletes #beat #big #big issue

Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#did #end #even #more #soviet

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#cannot #country #enough #i #judge

Textbooks are Soviet propaganda. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#soviet #textbooks

During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#arranged #candidates #during #election #first

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#economic #economic policy #forbidden #new #policy

The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#because #directors #everything #force #forces