#soviet

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#people #soviet #unconditional #want

Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration. ↗

— Hal Lindsey

#been #disintegration #going #i #now

We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#consolidate #deal #debt #democracy #era

Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#gotten #jimmy #jimmy carter #might #probably

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 failures. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#been #done #excuses #failures #greatest

Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#compared #russia #soviet #soviet union #then

Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.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

— Barbara Olson

#been #bin #cold #cold war #end

The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#experts #many #measures #organization #overdue

Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy. ↗

— Dan Rather

#democracy #despite #many #most #soviets

I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#audiences #concert #denmark #did #england