For our 1992 retrospective of Matisse, I'd traveled from Japan to Australia to Mexico to the Soviet Union and could not find this painting. So this summer, when the call came, I said, 'How could it be?
John Elderfield
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This sentimental comedy by the Soviet playwright Aleksei Arbuzov is said to have had a great success in its own country. So do fringed lamp shades.
Richard Eder
The general effect of Cold War extremism was to delay rather than hasten the great change that overtook the Soviet Union.
George F. Kennan
Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.
Richard Lugar
Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.
Jerry Falwell
Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
The former Soviet Union had many bombs but they did not save the system. Iran will not be an exception. Ultimately, it is the public legitimacy that will make the regime live or die.
Hooshang Amirahmadi
For them this is a final straw, the final symbol of Soviet greatness.
Steve Harrigan
In 1991, a miraculous thing happened, and that's the Soviet Union ended. So there was an opportunity to build a very healthy and new world, on the basis of the change that the Russian people themselves wanted. But for Russia to make that change was going to be one of the most remarkably difficult and complex passages imaginable.
Jeffrey Sachs
Yes, Samantha, we in the Soviet Union are trying to do everything so that there will not be war on Earth. This is what every Soviet man wants.
Yuri Andropov
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.
Joseph Stalin
They have generally 99 percent Soviet- and Russian-made equipment, and they have all necessary equipment to make effective damage to federal troops and to fight them during a long period of time: Land mines, small and light weapons, air-to-air missiles.
Ruslan Pukhov
One day he wrote to me -- I was in Moscow at the time -- asking me to state publicly that he was not a KGB agent, ... I did state publicly that he was not a KGB agent, because he was a (Soviet military intelligence) agent.
Oleg Kalugin
Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
Joseph Stalin
For us, the Second World War and its sequels will end only ... when we become members of the NATO alliance and when we can be assured of not ever being occupied again as we were by two occupying powers: Stalinist Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
Vaira Vike Freiberga
The shift has been toward the former Soviet Union to Asian countries.
Jason Goulden
The private sector should have a massively larger role. It is frankly stupid that we are the only country that believes the Soviet system works.
Iain Duncan Smith
What we have seen in Eastern Europe, particularly in some of the former Soviet republics, is just a very accelerated increase in infection, primarily through intravenous drug use.
Mark Connolly
If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.
Carlos Fuentes
Under the old Soviet system, with closed borders, they didn't have a real problem or issue. Nobody crossed the line under the Soviet system. They knew what would happen. But once they opened the borders, theoretically at least, that all changed.
Gary Sullivan
While this is important historical information, the major political parties have not made much of it. None of the key players are around anymore. The Soviet Union has gone.
Mahesh Rangarajan
About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether we (Soviet Union) exist. If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations, and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it our not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
Nikita Khrushchev
I do not think that the Chinese Communist Party is going to implode and collapse like it did in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. This Communist Party is going to fight to stay in power, and it will use the military to stay there.
David Shambaugh
The government views the media as a tool to deliver information about its decisions, like it was in the Soviet times. It only gives the information it wants to give.
Alexander Golts
Of course, the kind of support that Cuba could give us was very limited when it came to building up our army, since they didn't manufacture armaments in the quantities that we required. So we turned to Algeria and the Soviet Union for support.
Daniel Ortega
Religion divides people. The task of Soviet society was to carry out a policy that made it as improper to talk about religion as about salaries or syphilitics. Every religion makes a claim to have the absolute truth, and when you have the truth, you can do anything, including kill.
Alexander Nikonov
If a religious community is not registered with the authorities, that is no reason to restrict it. We cannot allow the mistakes of the Soviet period to be repeated. We must respect religious freedom.
Arbol Argynov
I wanted to say in the Security Council, "There is no cause for alarm. The rumbling sound that you hear is the normal noise of the Soviet ambassador being lowered and locked into a fixed position." But I never got to say it, the time was never quite right.
Lord Caradon
Its the difference between working in the Soviet economy which is command and control and the western European Economy. It's the difference between a computer and a brain.
Matt White
There are indications that domestic and foreign policies of the Party enjoy the unanimous support of all the Soviet people.
Yuri Andropov
It's interesting how at odds we were then with the Soviet Union.
Scott Carpenter
The people of Pakistan assisted the Afghan people during our long years of problems, during the Soviet invasion, they provided all possible assistance. So when they are in need, the people of Afghanistan share their pain and want to do whatever possible to assist.
Karim Rahimi
The Chinese believe that [former Soviet leader Mikhail] Gorbachev made a critical, indeed fatal error by tending to assume that economic freedom involves political freedom as well.
Glen Barclay
I'd rather have the United States be the world's policeman than the Soviet Union be the world's jailer.
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
We knew from the very beginning that this was a Soviet crime. There were letters (from the detention camp) that people received, including from my own father. All of a sudden the letters stopped coming. We were aware that something happened in the spring of 1940. There was no doubt.
Andrzej Wajda
Every community has its stars, and in the community of Hillel in the former Soviet Union, Chaplin was definitely a star, ... Everybody knew him.
Rabbi Hillel
I have seen the future; and it works. (Following a visit to the Soviet Union in 1919).
Lincoln Steffens
What he wanted to do was close a vulnerability to the West; to have an intercontinental, long-range bomber equal to the B-29, which became even more crucial after 1949 with the first Soviet atomic weapon.
Von Hardesty
The Soviet Union model of what a Communist country is supposed to look like doesn't work for China. China has unbridled capitalism.
James Green
I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.
Hannes Alfven
All nuclear power facilities on the territory of Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan are part of the single complex of the former Soviet Ministry of Medium Machine Building, which we need to restore.
Sergei Kiriyenko
I am lucky, ... that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.
Garry Kasparov
In the United States alone, 350,000 Jews live below the poverty line and benefit from our dollars. In the former Soviet Union, 240,000 elderly people need our help just to have shelter, heat and food.
Gary Wagner
There is no confrontation in our country - neither racial nor religious. There are no wars on our land, ... Name another post-Soviet state which can boast the same values.
Alexander Lukashenko
The question was asked, 'What can seven divisions do to stop a Soviet attack? ... And the answer very explicitly was: They can guarantee that if the Soviets attack and kill or capture 300,000 Americans, the war won't end there.
Thomas Schelling
In the Soviet Union, errors led to popular discontent among other reasons due to the bad performance of the economy.
Francisco Soberon
The shift has been toward the former Soviet Union to Asian countries. We're seeing a lot in China now that we didn't see in the past cycle.
Jason Goulden
I was considered the bad boy of Soviet tennis.
Shamil Tarpishchev
The state should not be conscripting members of the public to spy on other members of the public. That was already tried in the Soviet Union.
Jason Gratl
Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.
Ann Coulter
If in Soviet times we had Stalinism, in Belarus today we have Lukashenko-ism.
Anatoly Lebedko
I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.
Lee Harvey Oswald
We want to return our team to the glory days of the Soviet Union.
Vitaly Mutko
We forget that at the height of the Cold War the United States and the Soviet Union were spending $500 billion on their nuclear arsenals.
C. Uday Bhaskar
Ideology in the Soviet Union is both dead, and very much alive! Dead at the level of faith; alive as an indispensable rationale of policy.
Milovan Djilas
Russia is actively using gas diplomacy for its expansion over the ex-Soviet space in a bid to become a regional superpower.
Lilia Shevtsova
He told me after finishing school (where he'd been an outstanding wrestler) that he wanted to become a fireman. Then he decided to join the Marines. But I said 'no.' The Rangers were OK. I'd been in a group like the Rangers in the Soviet Army. So he became a Ranger.
Ivan Venikov
All the documents were signed today, the talks are officially over. It is the lowest price for all post-Soviet countries except Belarus.
Eduard Zaniuk
He has joined us without any conditions. Yegor stands for red, Soviet-style nationalism.
Eduard Limonov
Seven decades of Soviet propaganda.
Edil Baisalov
Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees.
Ernest Mandel
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