Soviet Quotes - Page 16

• We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to ensure their interests.

  Joseph Stalin

  People, Giving, Voting

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• The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa.

  Joseph Stalin

  Democracy, Vices, Vice Versa

  Joseph Stalin (1978). “1934-1940”

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• American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.

  Joseph Stalin

  Democracy, American Democracy

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• Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants, lands, banks, means of transportation, etc., remain untouched there, and, therefore, capitalism in Germany and Italy remains in full force.

  Joseph Stalin

  Mean, Italian, Land

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• Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.

  Joseph Stalin

  Country, Mean, Land

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• The society which we have built can in no way be termed "state socialism."The social organization which we have created can be termed a Soviet, socialist organization which has not yet been quite completed, but is in its root a socialist organization of society. The foundation of this society is public ownership.

  Joseph Stalin

  Organization, Roots, Foundation

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• In what do the activities of the Communist Parties consist? In what ways can they manifest themselves? These activities usually consist in the organization of working masses, in organizing meetings, demonstrations, strikes, etc. It is absolutely clear that American Communists cannot perform this in Soviet territory. The American workers are not in the U.S.S.R.

  Joseph Stalin

  Party, Organization, Territory

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• American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.

  Joseph Stalin

  Opportunity, Government, Ideas

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• It is now well-known that the Taliban's creation was facilitated by the CIA and the ISI as part of the 1980s anti-Soviet war.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Well Known, Creation

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• What I found interesting about Slava Fetisov was that he went through three different generations of Soviet hockey. In the late 70's, he experienced the Miracle on Ice, and then in the 80's became with his teammates the Russian Five, the most dominant team in the history of hockey, and then helped bring down the hockey system when the Soviet Union collapsed and became one of the first players to play in the NHL, and then ultimately came back to Russia.

  Gabe Polsky

  Team, Hockey, Player

  Source: collider.com

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• In Soviet Russia, party always finds you!

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Party, Russia, Soviet Russia

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• Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet Russia, Cuba, or any other slave pen. Whether a free nation chooses to do so or not is a matter of its own self-interest, not of respect for the nonexistent 'rights' of gang rulers. It is not a free nation's duty to liberate other nations at the price of self-sacrifice, but a free nation has the right to do it, when and if it so chooses.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Russia, Rights

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• I'm worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don't appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and the evil of the enemy that faces us -more evil or as evil as Nazism and probably more dangerous than the Soviet communists we fought during the long Cold War.

  Joe Lieberman

  War, Long, People

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• All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held 'elections.' Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Years, Different, Calling

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• Los Angeles County government is a "Soviet-style system," with too many people only sort of in charge and no person sufficiently at the helm to take responsibility.

  Zev Yaroslavsky

  Responsibility, Government, People

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• The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there are in Eastern Europe.

  George Will

  Years, Europe, Unions

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• In the years since The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Voinovich has sharpened his satire, and Monumental Propaganda is a novel that slashes and rips -- but not on every page. He expands his narrative to accommodate shrewd philosophy and inventive portraiture, a very amusing disquisition on Soviet latrines and a number of outlandish plot developments. In his translation, Andrew Bromfield deftly shifts his tone and tools as required, remaining true to Voinovich's Vonnegut-like playfulness and appreciation of the absurd.

  Ken Kalfus

  Appreciation, Rip, Philosophy

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• The mythology of the Reagan presidency is that he induced the collapse of the Soviet Union by luring it into unsustainable military spending and wars: should there come a point when we think about applying that lesson to ourselves?

  Glenn Greenwald

  Military, War, Thinking

  "Washington gets explicit: its 'war on terror' is permanent". www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2013.

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• Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Spring, Thinking, Government

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• The Prime Minister, shortly after she came into office, received a sobriquet as the 'Iron Lady'. It arose in the context of remarks which she made about defence against the Soviet Union and its allies; but there was no reason to suppose that the Right Honourable Lady did not welcome and, indeed, take pride in that description. In the next week or two this House, the nation and the Right Honourable Lady herself, will learn of what metal she is made.

  Enoch Powell

  Pride, Next Week, Two

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• The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire.

  Chalmers Johnson

  Demise, Empires, American Empire

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• A Russian Reversal quote on Uncyclopedia's Soviet Union article? How original.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Unions, Articles, Soviet Union

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• In America, your job determines your marks. In Soviet Russia, Marx determine your job!

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Jobs, Russia, America

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• Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot.

  Gabe Polsky

  Art, Play, Creative

  Source: collider.com

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• There (in the Soviet Union) it was a science. In order to be a coach, you had to study in school.

  Gabe Polsky

  School, Order, Unions

  Source: collider.com

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