#soviet

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

After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#conflict #cuts #deep #doing #every

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

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#army #courage #more #retreat #soviet

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#gaiety #most #outstanding #soviet #soviet union

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

Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War. ↗

— Mary Landrieu

#berlin wall #cold #cold war #coming #demise

As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British. ↗

— Mohammed Omar

#before #british #defeat #fire #future

An army of the people is invincible! ↗

— Mao Tse-tung

#commie #communism #mao #people #prolitariat

So seven new countries, three of them formerly part of the Soviet Union, and the others part of the Warsaw Pact, will become full members of NATO next year. ↗

— Lord Robertson

#countries #formerly #full #members #nato