#soviet

Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#committees #conditions #councils #crises #highest

An army of the people is invincible! ↗

— Mao Tse-tung

#commie #communism #mao #people #prolitariat

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#cutting #driving #heads #into #must

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#people #soviet #unconditional #want

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

#big question #bloc #countries #course #europeans

Of course, the kind of support that Cuba could give us was very limited when it came to building up our army, since they didn't manufacture armaments in the quantities that we required. So we turned to Algeria and the Soviet Union for support. ↗

— Daniel Ortega

#armaments #army #building #came #could

We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#consolidate #deal #debt #democracy #era

Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#countries #destructive #dozen #empire #expanding

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev. ↗

— Russell Baker

#astonished #cold #cold war #communist #culture

You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget. ↗

— Tom DeLay

#balanced #balanced budget #budget #democrats #had