#soviet

I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that. ↗

— Karen Morley

#bread #daily #daily bread #did #i

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#castro #even #go #nickel #put

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#because #come #everybody #existence #into

I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York colour field painters and the soviet schools of the early/mid 20th century suprematism and constructionism. ↗

— Will Sergeant

#am #century #chord #colour #early

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#chess #even #exception #fischer #only

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me. ↗

— Lennart Meri

#happening #i #me #really #soviet

...The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#darkness-at-noon #liberty #politics #soviet-union #freedom

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#after #agreement #because #born #childhood

Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#alone #among #during #faith #god

According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#afghanistan #after #aid #army #began