#soviet

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

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#brain #does #heart #miss #soviet

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

It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests. ↗

— John Amery

#allies #become #british #came #england

I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#capital #capital punishment #exposing #full #gave

I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#court #gave #harmed #helped #i

We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road. ↗

— Satish Kumar

#came #carrying #day #distributing #few

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

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness. ↗

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

#belief #century #half #human #human kindness