Quotes About Soviet

Most of the time, however, the cruelty of Soviet camp guards was unthinking, stupid, lazy cruelty, of the sort that might be shown to cattle or sheep.

Soviet joke about the terrible anxiety Ivan and his wife Masha experienced when the knock on the door came—and their relief when they learned it was only the neighbor come to tell them that the building was on fire.

In the former Soviet Union in the years following 1989, nationalism was still popularly believed to be progressive; nationalist leaders were still believed, at least in the beginning, to speak for the many people whose voices had been suppressed in the past.

She regrets the breakup of the Soviet Union and blames Western-imported corruption

public demonstrations, a freer press, and freer elections were not enough to keep the Soviet Union together.

The explosion of HIV was triggered by the sharp rise in heroin use in the post-Soviet 1990s.

14 h 45. Pour la première fois, j'ose téléphoner à l'ambassade d'URSS pour savoir (cela, savoir, savoir...) s'il y a ou non cinéma aujourd'hui. C'est non et je suis un peu soulagée, juste de ma jalousie, non de mon désir de le voir.

Pourquoi non. Je suis fascinée par l'« âme russe », ou l'« âme soviétique », ou par l'URSS entière, à la fois si proche, physiquement, culturellement (dans le passé) et si différente (pas le même sentiment vis-à-vis de la Chine, de l'Inde, plus radicalement autres Ã¢â'¬â€œ propos raciste ?).

There's a huge generational gap between the Soviet-school journalists and the new journalists. We were not brought up working on propaganda; we were brought up in the new Russia, working on the news.

Let us give thanks to our father, leader, and creator for our happy lives!" "Stankovskaya, to hear your anti-Soviet talk, one can hardly believe that you were a member of a municipal committee!" "Yes, and to hear you people one can hardly believe that you're not on the prison staff. Why don't you call the guards now and report this conversation? You might get some clean underwear as a reward, and then you wouldn't stink so much.

Russia's fundamental problem is not that it is a poor country struggling to modernize, but rather that it is a rich country struggling to modernize. Schoolchildren in the Soviet era were taught that they lived in the richest country in the world. In this case communist propaganda was true

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

I was in my early 20s when Estonia joined the E.U. For a kid who'd grown up in the Soviet Union, it seemed like my country had come of age. For a country that had been isolated and cut off from the rest of the world, it seemed like we were becoming part of the global community. It opened a whole new world of possibility.

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

I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an arms shipment that from Nicaragua across Honduran test, territory destined for El Salvador and I think that some of that equipment had been also to Cuba and the Soviet bloc.

Q: What is a Soviet trio? A: A quartet returning from an overseas tour. —1970s underground Soviet humor

Soviet pressure against the free institutions of the western world," Kennan explained, "is something that can be contained by the adroit and vigilant application of counter-force at a series of constantly shifting geographical and political points

For more than five years, I'd made little progress with my efforts at quiet diplomacy—for one thing, the Soviet leaders kept dying on me.

At my first press conference I was asked whether we could trust the Soviet Union, and I said that the answer to that question could be found in the writings of Soviet leaders: It had always been their philosophy that it was moral to lie or cheat for the purpose of advancing Communism.

In an effort to minimize evaporation, Central Asians came to dig these channels deeper and deeper and thus reduce the area exposed to the sun. They also lined them to prevent loss through seepage—both of these being techniques that modern Soviet engineers ignored, with disastrous consequences.

I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.

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.

If the Albanian Museum of Atheism followed its Soviet prototype, the exhibits would have traced the ascent of Man from amoebae to Enver Hoxha. We