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• Decades of indoctrination, manipulation, censorship and KGB excursions haven't altered this fact: People want a piece of their own little Something-or-Other, and, if they don't get it, have a tendency to initiate counterrevolution.

  Frank Zappa

  People, Want, Littles

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• We should be I hope finally realizing what Vladimir Putin is. He's an old colonel, KGB, apparatchik, and he dreams of the restoration of the Russian empire.

  John McCain

  Dream, Restoration, Empires

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Nobody got me out," Nellie replied. "They just let me go. They think I'm a deranged Jonah Wizard fan. Apparently, the hotel's full of them. A couple of idiots actually jumped off the front balcony. Can you picture that?" "In Technicolor," Amy said bitterly. "That low-down KGB reject!" Dan fumed. "I can't believe she cheated me–right when I was in the middle of cheating her!

  Gordon Korman

  Cheating, Couple, Believe

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• Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous thing they face is paper. Papers carry secrets. Papers carry death warrants. Papers like this one, this folio with its blurry eighteen year old faked missile photographs and estimates of time/survivor curves and pervasive psychosis ratios, can give you nightmares, dragging you awake screaming in the middle of the night.

  Charles Stross

  Thinking, Gun, Night

  "Toast: And Other Rusted Futures". Book by Charles Stross, 2002.

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• There was an intervention of the foreign states in the Russian Far East, Archangel of the West border of Russia. The foreign troops were participating in the attempts to stamp out the revolution. It's not just propaganda, because there are mounds of documents in the archives relating to these events and to the foreign espionage cases.

  Vladimir Semichastny

  Russia, Events, Troops

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• You would think that if neoliberals were in any way honest, after the collapse of the Soviet Union the first thing to do is get rid of the Red Army and the KGB, and build up the economy. Instead, they just get rid of the economy and keep the military and the KGB.

  David Graeber

  Military, Army, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The KGB still killed people, the KGB would not execute its last prisoner until the final days of its existence in 1991, but by the eighties a termination required paperwork and signatures and a post-action review.

  Tom Clancy

  People, Signatures, Finals

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• I think this an outrage and I think the fact that the KGB is involved in this election [2016] is an outrage and I think the American people ought to take their democracy back regardless of what the press wants to do and the excuses they want to make for [James] Comey. That's what I think.

  James Carville

  Thinking, People, Democracy

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• [ James Comey] was acting in concert and coordination with the House Republicans. End of story. He gave a letter to them. They gave it to FOX News. Also, we have this extraordinary case of the KGB being involved in this race and selectively leaking things from the [Hillary] Clinton campaign that they hacked.

  James Carville

  Race, House, Acting

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• There is nothing going on and in the meantime we do know that our democracy is under assault by the KGB. To me, that's something we ought to be talking about. That's a relevant issue in this campaign [2016].

  James Carville

  Issues, Talking, Democracy

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• People have to decide do we want our country for ourselves with the people in charge or are we going to elect the the KGB and the House Republicans to decide this election [2016].

  James Carville

  Country, People, House

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Around the corner [ of the Carnegie Delicatessen] is the Russian Tea Room, which is now out of business. Which is awful. I remember going in there and seeing the ballerinas trotting in there like they were prize horses, with their hair, their sunglasses. Really amazing. They were all White Russians. This is where [Leon] Theremin met a lot of people, and where the KGB eventually picked him up.

  Paul Laffoley

  Horse, White, Hair

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I come from rather an international, or in other words, a cosmopolitan background.

  George Blake

  Backgrounds, International

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• There is no moral equivalent between that butcher and thug and KGB colonel Vladimir Putin and the United States of America, the country that Ronald Reagan used to call a shining city on a hill.

  John McCain

  Country, Thug, Cities

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I've been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated me as an agent of Iraq. The FBI has also opened up an investigation into my wife calling her a KGB spy.

  Scott Ritter

  Iraq, Israel, Wife

  "Exclusive: Scott Ritter in His Own Words". Interview with Massimo Calabresi, content.time.com. September 14, 2002.

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• As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent network, a network in the so called maritime provinces.

  George Blake

  Korea, Trying, Tasks

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• Made me feel ashamed of belonging to these overpowering, technical superior countries fighting against what seemed to me quite defenseless people.

  George Blake

  Country, Fighting, People

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• The president(Obama) comparing him to a kid in the back of a classroom, I think, is very indicative of the president's lack of appreciation of who Vladimir Putin is. He's an old KGB colonel that has no illusions about our relationship, does not care about a relationship with the United States, continues to oppress his people, continues to act in an autocratic fashion.

  John McCain

  Fashion, Appreciation, Kids

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• All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography (paid for by CIA, KGB and the like), hydrodynamics (supported by manufacturers of atomic submarines) and celestial mechanics (financed by military and other institutions dealing with missiles, such as NASA).

  Vladimir Arnold

  Military, Three, Submarines

  "Polymathematics: is mathematics a single science or a set of arts?". Mathematics: Frontiers and Perspectives, edited by V. I. Arnold, M. Atiyah, P. Lax, and B. Mazur, pp. 403 - 416, 2000.

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• Government employees are public servants and prohibited by the Constitution from inhibiting religious freedom, that is a far cry from sneaking around and into a church and acting like KGB agents.

  Mathew Staver

  Religious, Freedom, Government

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• My television teaches me that everything was wonderful in the Soviet Union. According to the programs I watch, the KGB and apparatchiks were angels, and the Stalin era was so festive that the heroes of the day must still be celebrated today.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Hero, Angel, Eras

  "Russia Is Slipping Back into an Authoritarian Empire". Interview with Martin Doerry and Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. February 2, 2007.

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• To go again over the history of the struggle of resistance ... and to think 'Where are all these people today Where is the KGB' is very inspiring

  Natan Sharansky

  Struggle, Thinking, People

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• As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents.

  Paul Johnson

  War, Fighting, Battle

  Paul Johnson (1972). “The offshore islanders; England's people from Roman occupation to the present”

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• I've never been to the Soviet Union and the main reason for that is I was warned several times by people from the KGB who had defected to the West that it would be very unsafe for me to go there

  Brian Crozier

  People, Unions, West

  "Author delivers 'accessible' Soviet history" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. January 5, 2000.

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• I believe that they were brave people. One should be of courageous character to do what they had done, not only this, one should be a person of strong character and bravery - not ordinary people. That what I would call them. It's not like some petty official or something that decided to defect to the other side. For them it was a very serious moment.

  Vladimir Semichastny

  Strong, Believe, Character

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