112 Quotes About Soviet-union
- Author William Gibson
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You’re too young to remember it,” Verity's mother said, “but we were expecting nuclear war all the time, really, up into my early thirties. Later, all of that felt unreal. But the feeling that things became basically okay turns out to have actually been what was unreal.
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- Author Serhii Plokhy
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The world has already been overwhelmed by one Chernobyl and one exclusion zone. It cannot afford any more. It must learn its lessons from what happened in and around Chernobyl on April 26, 1986.
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- Author C.G. Faulkner
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The large helicopter circled the site of the borehole before landing. In his briefing he had learned that this place was a scientific drilling project that had begun in May of 1970, using the Uralmash-4E drilling rig, in an attempt to drill as deep as possible into the Earth’s crust. Apparently after losing the race upwards to the moon, the Soviets were now trying for the consolation prize of downwards to the Earth’s core.
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- Author Ilya Ilf
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She was, after all, a mattress owner and understood the subtleties of life.
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- Author Anna Eskuri
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ისინი უკვე დიდი ხანია თავს ქალებად აღარ გრძნობდნენ, ყველანი მხოლოდ პატიმრები იყვნენ - მათ სქესს მნიშვნელობა დაეკარგა.
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- Author Alexander Pokryshkin
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Những con người liệu có quên đi bao nhiêu xương máu đã phải đổ ra qua những năm tháng, bao nhiêu nấm mồ rải rác trên những dải đất từ Vôn-ga đến Xprê và trên các chiến trường của nhiều quốc gia châu Âu không? Họ sẽ không quên...Họ không bao giờ được quên!
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- Author Svetlana Alliluyeva
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With our one hand we try to catch the moon itself, but with another one we are obliged to dig out potatoes the same way it was done a hundred years ago.
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- Author Nancy Rubin Stuart
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By 1937 Soviet standards, mementos of Russian history before the 1917 revolution were irrelevant. Even the suggestion that china, jewelry, or furniture created for the imperial palaces of the tsars was worth more than its weight in gold might be construed as anti-Soviet propaganda.
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- Author Stuart Gibbs
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Just clip the red one," Cyrus told her."They're all red," Erica informed him."They are?" Cyrus asked. "Curse those Soviets! Everything always has to be red with them.
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