#soviet

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#alarm #both #counterparts #his #invasion

The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union. ↗

— Giovanni Agnelli

#communist #communist party #communists #italian #italy

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#defeated #did #faith #like #sophisticated

One has this image of the Soviet state and the Red Army as being extremely disciplined but in the first four months of 1945 their soldiers were completely out of control. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#being #completely #control #disciplined #extremely

The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#armies #army #humanely #local #majority

People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far. ↗

— Marcel Dionne

#ask #best #career #cup #experience

In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened. ↗

— Alexander Dubcek

#army #arrival #comrades #conjecture #could

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#communism #country #democracy #over #soviet

I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#be different #different #grandchildren #i #i am

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#country #plus #power #soviet #whole