#soviet

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

#been #done #excuses #failures #greatest

I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#be different #different #grandchildren #i #i am

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#communism #country #democracy #over #soviet

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#country #plus #power #soviet #whole

I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an arms shipment that from Nicaragua across Honduran test, territory destined for El Salvador and I think that some of that equipment had been also to Cuba and the Soviet bloc. ↗

— John Negroponte

#also #arms #been #before #bloc

Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden. ↗

— Barbara Olson

#been #bin #cold #cold war #end

I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy. ↗

— Lee Harvey Oswald

#american #american policy #being #bloc #cubans

The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#experts #many #measures #organization #overdue

I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#audiences #concert #denmark #did #england

Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely? Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet Union or the peoples' democracies. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#assure #democracies #discrimination #either #ever