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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
The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.
— Vladimir Putin
If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses.
— John C. Wright
He who does not regret the break-up of the Soviet Union has no heart; he who wants to revive it in its previous form has no head.
— Vladimir Putin
We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union.
— Frank Knox
The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.
— Rand Paul
I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.
— Robert Dallek
America has the best athletic programs. Even when the Soviet Union existed, that was Mickey Mouse compared to the U.S.
— Eric Braeden
The first gold medal we had won for the Soviet Union. This one we won for each other.
— Ekaterina Gordeeva
I believe that renunciation of the Soviet Union was an expression of the free will of the Russian people.
— Vladislav Surkov
That bowl of soup - it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Poppe, once a leading figure at a scientific research institute, found a job as a swimming pool attendant
— Victor Sebestyen
My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player.
— Gabe Polsky
People in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those that do regret it have no brain.
— Vladimir Putin
You stuck listening devices all over the dachaeven in the bathroom. You spend the people's money to eavesdrop on my farts. — Nikita Khrushchev
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
Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.
— Vladimir Putin
If we look at where relations between the Soviet Union and Germany were in 1945 and where we stand now, then we have achieved so much.
— Angela Merkel
I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.
— Garry Kasparov
These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.
— Vladimir Putin
When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.
— Alex North
With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.
— Ken Follett
When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt.
— Leonid Brezhnev
Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.
— Newt Gingrich
Writers are engineers of human souls.
— Yury Olesha
The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
— Andrew Young
Shukhov had figured it all out. If he didn't sign he'd be shot. If he signed he'd still get a chance to live. So he signed.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.
— Rose Wilder Lane
It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace.
— Kenneth Waltz
I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
— Karen Morley
You don't have to be very bright to carry a handbarrow. So the squad leader gave such work to people who'd been in positions of authority.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.
— Alexander Haig
A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.
— Lee H. Hamilton
Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.
— Norman Mailer
The organization of the Soviet Union was directly modeled on that of the German postal service.
— David Graeber
It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.
— Billy Graham
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
— Boris Spassky
Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
— Richard M. Nixon
In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
— Fran Lebowitz
What did in the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union.
— Robert Dallek
The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained.
— Vladimir Putin
The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union.
— Giovanni Agnelli
The EU is the old Soviet Union dressed in Western clothes
— Mikhail Gorbachev
The most important aspect of detente today is that there is no ideological detente.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly choose the Soviet Union.
— Graham Greene
Happy hour is slightly different in the Soviet Union. There are no ice cubes or orange-peel twists in the vodka. Also, it lasts all day.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The days rolled by in the camp - they were over before you could say "knife." But the years, they never rolled by; they never moved by a second.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
— Barbara Amiel
It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'
— Mikhail Gorbachev
In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse. An optimist thinks maybe they can.
— Abel Aganbegyan
The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.
— Fulton J. Sheen
I grew up a little girl in the Soviet Union playing at a small sports club. Tennis gave me my life.
— Anna Kournikova
Of course, in no case would we allow the creation of a regional union in the Balkans, directed against the Soviet Union and Bulgaria.
— Todor Zhivkov
Here a man can live. All right, it's a 'special' camp. So what? Does it bother you to wear a number? They don't weigh anything, those numbers.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Carter is the best President the Soviet Union ever had.
— William Safire
If we have a thousand bamboo spears, there's nothing to worry about a war with the Soviet Union.
— Sadao Araki
In order to become the chisel that breaks the marble inside us, the artist must first become the hammer. [Soviet censor of paintings and photos]
— Anthony Marra
History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.
— Henry L. Stimson
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.
— Vera Farmiga
The ability to discuss things was still the most highly valued commodity in the Soviet Union.
— Masha Gessen
And we, from the whole of our life experience there, have concluded that there is only one way to withstand violence: with firmness.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
— Henry Kissinger
Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
— Joseph Stalin
If you can survive soviet union you will survive anywhere
— Sunday Adelaja
There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.
— Tom Clancy
The Soviet Union has become the seacoast of the universe.
— Sergei Korolev
If you go through all the structures and features of this emerging European monster you will notice that it more and more resembles the Soviet Union.
— Vladimir Bukovsky
When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.
— Jesse Jackson
This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union and we know how successful that was.
— Virginia Foxx
When I was starting out in 1988, I was doing cartoons on President George H. W. Bush, Iraq and the fall of Soviet Union.
— Steve Breen
In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed socialism doesn't work, — Rand Paul
In the Soviet Union, it's takes more courage to retreat than advance.
— Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.
— Vagit Alekperov
The fall of the Berlin Wall on 11/9/89 unleashed forces that ultimately liberated all the captive peoples of the Soviet Empire
— Thomas L. Friedman
