#soviet

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

Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#brains #heart #passing #regret #restored

I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#disappeared #emerged #everyone #existence #foundation

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

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#i #life #my life #soviet #spent

The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#economy #joke #looking #might #model

I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches. ↗

— Mohammed Daud Khan

#cigarettes #feel #happiest #i #i can

The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#any #arms #arms race #before #brought

I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations. ↗

— Matt Stone

#anything #been #china #chinese #i