Ussr Quotes - Page 2

• In fact, we've entered a world which is arguably much more dangerous than [being] eyeball to eyeball with the USSR.

  Nicholas Meyer

  World, Facts, Eyeballs

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Ronald Reagan [ cite the founders] on behalf of emphasizing the faith of our founders, of limited government, of the uniqueness and exceptionalism of America, of a nation with a people facing another historic challenge beyond the American Revolution, and in contrasting the system of the United States with the system of the USSR.

  Paul Kengor

  Government, America, People

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• Japan announced that it would not comply with this declaration [ 1956]. Later on, the Soviet Union also declared that the declaration could not be fulfilled unilaterally, by the USSR alone.

  Vladimir Putin

  Japan, Unions, Soviet Union

  Source: www.rt.com

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• The Russian economy is way down because of the price of oil, and because the USSR was a big chunk of it.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Oil, Russian Economy, Way

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they would want it back.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Regret, People, Majority

  "'They Were Truly Idiots'". Interview with Matthias Schepp, Christian Neef, www.spiegel.de. August 16, 2011.

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• Now the opportunity to destroy the USSR has arrived.

  Sadao Araki

  Opportunity

  "The greatest battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow" by Andrew Nagorski, (p. 215), 2007.

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• [Albert]Camus had denounced the gulag and Stalin's trials. Today we can see that he was right. To say that there were concentration camps in the USSR at the time was blasphemous, something very serious indeed. Today we think about the USSR with the camps also in mind, but before it just wasn't allowed. Nobody was allowed to think that or say that if you were left-wing.

  Catherine Camus

  Thinking, Wings, Mind

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• After visits to several Communist countries (USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, East Germany, Vietnam, China, Cuba), I feel strongly that most "revolutionary" types around the world don't realize the importance of freedom of the press and the air, a right to peaceably assemble and discuss anything, including the dangers of such discussions.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, East Germany, Air

  Source: portside.org

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• The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border of Afghanistan, I wrote to President Jimmy Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, Opportunity, Giving

  Source: www.marxists.org

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

  Janeane Garofalo

  Would Be, World, Communist

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When the history of the 20th century is finally written, one of its key features will be the wanton slaughter of more than 170 million people, not in war, but by their own government. The governments that led in this slaughter are the former USSR (65 million) and the Peoples Republic of China (35-40 million). The point to remember is that these governments were the idols of America's leftists. Part of the reason for these and other tyrannical successes was because the people were first disarmed.

  Walter E. Williams

  War, Idols, America

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• I am truly happy that I am able to travel from time to time to the USSR the country I love above all. I always have been, I am now and will always be a loyal friend of the Soviet Union.

  Paul Robeson

  Country, Loyal, Unions

  "I Love Above All, Russia,' Robeson Says". "Afro-American", p. 7, June 25, 1949.

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• Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Country, Police, Monsters

  "Les Temps modernes". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, p. 184, 1961.

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• Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!

  C. Wright Mills

  Democracy, Unions, Leon

  "C. Wright Mills: The Last Six Months". Saul Landau, Ramparts Magazine (pp. 49-50), August 1965.

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• Of late, attempts have been made in the USA - at a high level and in a rather cynical form - to play the "Chinese card" against the USSR. This is a shortsighted and dangerous policy.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Play, Usa, Cynical

  "Peace, Détente, and Soviet-American Relations: A Collection of Public Statements". Book by Leonid Brezhnev, p. 222, 1979.

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• I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Should, Peasants, Workers

  "Shostakovich: A Life". Book by Laurel Fay, p. 55, 2000.

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• The Soviet Union has long been proposing to outlaw chemical weapons, to remove them from the arsenals of states. We are prepared for resolution of this problem either on a global basis or piece by piece. As one of the first steps the USSR and the other socialist countries proposed in January 1984 that agreement be reached on ridding Europe of all types of chemical weapons.

  Konstantin Chernenko

  Country, Socialist Countries, Agreement

  "World Peace and the Developing Countries" Joseph Rotblat, Ubiratan D'Ambrosio, (p. 126), 1986.

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• Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in hopes of saving it. In the end he could not.

  David Hoffman

  Saving, Problem, Economic

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Whenever I'm asked about independent cinema, I think of what Fidel Castro said during the Cold War about the league of non-aligned nations. He said that really, there were only two non-aligned nations: the U.S. and the USSR. The rest of us have to be aligned somewhere. I say similarly, in a way, Paramount, Sony, and Warner Bros. are the only true independents, because they're the only ones who can do whatever they want and have distribution for their films built in.

  Alexander Payne

  War, Independent, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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