Soviet Quotes

History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.

The Communist Party of China is a party that seeks peace, harmony and reconciliation, unlike the Communist Party of the former Soviet Union

During the Cold War era, the issue was the containment of Soviet influence, and we tolerated many an authoritarian regime as long as they were useful to us in this respect.

Soviet-era nostalgia has strong support among the people. But not among the elite and, in my opinion, not with the president. We are not interested in keeping remnants of the communist era alive.

Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet!

I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.

We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road.

Whatever the drawbacks and failures I am convinced that in years to come humanity will look back to Soviet achievements as a source of profound inspiration

I was stopped in the dense Soviet wood by bandits who called themselves my judges.

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.

In Soviet-Russia the Jew is forging the tool with which he wants to enslave Europe.

When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.

According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace - not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our own failures.

The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.

The only conflict that is possible in Soviet culture is the conflict between good and best.

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.

During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.

Czechoslovakia provided Soviet Russia with landing fields for aircraft, thereby increasing the threat against Germany.

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.

If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.

In Soviet Russia, party always finds you!

The rout of fascism, in which the Soviet Union played the decisive role, generated a mighty tide of socio-political changes which swept across the globe.

In those years, it was easier to win the Soviet Championship than a game against 'Iron Tigran'.

The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.

Unlike the former Soviet Union that respected the strength of West, Putin's Russia ignores talk of sanctions, claims land, and supports rebels in Ukraine with impunity.

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.

The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.

I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.

In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.

The Communist Party and the Soviet Government display constant concern to strengthen the country's defensive might and raise the combat readiness of the Armed Forces.

The fall of the Berlin Wall really demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a bad system, and what subsequently happened in the Soviet Union, that that system was a failure.

I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they discuss we should change the color of the walls.

Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic change in strategy will continue to fail.

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

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

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was.

All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture... There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all... I have many friends who are Jews.

Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the U.S. Post Office.

In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.