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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?
The people who built the space program - both Soviet and U.S. - were readers of science fiction.
I remember my time growing up. It was a little bit difficult because the Soviet Union was broken.
The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire.
When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.
I grew up a little girl in the Soviet Union playing at a small sports club. Tennis gave me my life.
A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.
I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.
As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.
Nothing unites a group more than a common enemy, be it the Soviet Union or Nasty Nick from 'Big Brother.'
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.
We were extremely prescient in that we predicted the Soviet coup before it happened. That was kind of amazing.
In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
The Army I grew up in was focused on high-intensity conflict against a peer competitor called the Soviet Union.
I love 'The Master And Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov, which is about repression in Soviet Russia in the 1930s.
'Make America great again,' is not that different from Putin's nostalgia for the Soviet Union or tsarist Russia.
If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.
I was proud of my Soviet country, of wearing Young Pioneer uniform, bombarded by my mother's Communist propaganda.
Dentists, doctors, surveyors from Latvia wanted to come to England, do anything to get away from the Soviet regime.
Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.
After the Soviet withdrawal, many Afghan Communists had rebranded themselves as Islamists and joined the mujahedeen.
The Sandinistas are a tough bunch of guys, with a fabulous amount of Soviet Bloc equipment and Soviet Bloc advisers.
I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.
There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.
I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.
Empires will come and go. The Soviet Union collapses; China can become a superpower, but 'Blue Peter' stays the same.
Bin Laden had come to the delusional conclusion that the United States was as weak as the Soviet Union had once been.
The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.
Just because the boogeyman of the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, it doesn't mean the world is living angelically.
America has the best athletic programs. Even when the Soviet Union existed, that was Mickey Mouse compared to the U.S.
If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
If we look decades ago, we know that NATO allies contributed a lot of equipment close to the border of the Soviet Union.
When I was starting out in 1988, I was doing cartoons on President George H. W. Bush, Iraq and the fall of Soviet Union.
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.
Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.
Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.
For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions.
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.
My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.
If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.
American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.
Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.