Ussr Quotes

• Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

  Boris Spassky

  Literature, Chess, Fischer

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• Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, War, World

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• This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.

  Earl Browder

  Usa, Growth, World

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• 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

  Iron, Generations, Literature

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• 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

  Army, Thinking, People

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• I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.

  Boris Spassky

  Trying, Debt, Chess

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• The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.

  Vladimir Putin

  Demise, Unions, Provocative

  Speech on national TV, April 25, 2005.

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

  Joseph Stalin

  Unions, Outstanding, Soviet Union

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• Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Breakup, Regret, War

  "The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan". Le Nouvel Observateur Interview, www.globalresearch.ca. January, 1998.

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• What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and deep that I began to hear my own body: my heart beating, my blood vessels pulsing, even the rustle of my muscles moving over each other seemed audible. There were more stars in the sky than I had expected. The sky was deep black, yet at the same time bright with sunlight.

  Alexey Leonov

  Stars, Moving, Heart

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• I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  God, Nature, Believe

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• Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.

  George F. Kennan

  Military, Ocean, Government

  Foreword to 'The Pathology of Power' by Norman Cousins in 1987. "At a Century's Ending: Reflections 1982-1995". Book by George F. Kennan, p. 118, 1996.

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• You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Christian, Hate, Media

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• The abbreviations (e.g. NATO, UN, USSR - E.W.) denote that and only that which is institutionalized in such a way that the transcending connotation is cut off. The meaning is fixed, doctored, loaded. Once it has become an official vocable, constantly repeated in general usage, "sanctioned" by the intellectuals, it has lost all cognitive value and serves merely for recognition of an unquestionable fact.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Cutting, Culture, Abbreviations

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• The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Wall, Firsts, Hammers

  Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1994). “The View from the Kremlin”, HarperCollins

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• If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial plant to the USSR's already great industrial plant, the United States would be reduced to the character of a garrison state if it were to survive at all.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Character, Hands

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• Americans don't like to waste time on stupid things, for example, on the torturous process of coming up with names for their towns. And really, why strain yourself when so many wonderful names already exist in the world?The entrance to the town of Moscow is shown in the photograph. That's right, an absolutely authentic Moscow, just in the state of Ohio, not in the USSR in Moscow province.There's another Moscow in some other state, and yet another Moscow in a third state. On the whole, every state has the absolute right to have its very own Moscow.

  Ilya Ilf

  Stupid, Ohio, Names

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• I cannot see that any rational American. . . could conceivably try to fulfill the major national purposes of the United States through the United Nations. It would be comparable to the United States seeking to pass its legislation through the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

  Charles Lichenstein

  Trying, Purpose, United States

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• It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Country, Usa, Two

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• Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology.

  Simon Sebag-Montefiore

  Childhood, Miserable, Marxist

  Simon Sebag Montefiore (2009). “Young Stalin”, p.25, Vintage

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• Back in the days of the Soviet Union, the countries of Eastern Europe, being under the control of the USSR, would call their states "people's republics." The sham that is currently going on in the states of the former Soviet Union is due to the fact that the politicians in power are eager to polish up their image abroad.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Europe, People

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• The USA and USSR will only agree when shrimps learn to fly.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Usa, Shrimp, Learn To Fly

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• Stock ownership in the US is very highly concentrated. [Shareholder actions are] something, but it's like the old Communist Party in the USSR, it would be nice to see more protest inside the Communist Party but it's not democracy. It's not going to happen. [Shareholder actions] are a good step, but they're mostly symbolic.

  Noam Chomsky

  Nice, Party, Democracy

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• Let's not forget that one poll after another clearly demonstrates that well over 50% of Russian citizens still wants both socialism and the USSR back. And the Russian government is listening.

  Andre Vltchek

  Government, Listening, Citizens

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I've always been creative verbally, had a flair, my teachers said - wrote great expository essays in elementary school, scribbled little poems, embraced all writing assignments. And all along I read voraciously - first in Russian and then, after we left the USSR, in English, and even Spanish.

  Vera Nazarian

  Teacher, Writing, School

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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