#ussr

Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

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#arab world #army #believers #citizens #illusion

This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

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#behind #curtain #democratic #few #generation

The world would be better off with multiple superpowers. When Communist USSR was a superpower, the world was better off. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

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#better off #communist #multiple #off #superpower