112 Quotes About Soviet-union

We’ve covered ourselves with everything we own, plus a snow blanket on top. It does provide warmth. The snow is everywhere - our pillows, our hair. You stick your head out, take a deal breath, slip under the covers again and breathe out. Feels warm. The snow on your hair melts, then turns to ice. A winter hat. Silence. Darkness... The only thing visible is the snow.

Wszyscyśmy się wymieszali, nasza krew się zmieszała. W dowodzie ja i dzieci mamy napisane „Rosjanie”, chociaż nie jesteśmy Rosjanami. Jesteśmy obywatelami radzieckimi! Ale nie ma kraju, w którym się urodziłam. Nie ma ani miejsca, o którym mówiliśmy „ojczyzna”, ani tamtych czasów, które też były naszą ojczyzną.

The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

Poppe, once a leading figure at a scientific research institute, found a job as a swimming pool attendant

America was paralyzed; on one hand, by the power of the Southern Democrats in Congress, whose inordinate political strength and control of key committees was based on their ability to win reelection after reelection because of massive disfranchisement and racial terror; and on the other, by the missionary-like belief that America was the champion of democracy and freedom in the battle against the Soviet Union, whose death grip on human rights had no limits.

LENIN = "Revolutionary Social Democracy"American Socialists = "Democratic Socialism". What is the difference? The USSR held democratic referendums too; all of which increased the power of the central planners and reduced the individual to nothingness.

The most important aspect of detente today is that there is no ideological detente.

It seems that Russia today—dominated by, and accustomed to, autocracy and empire, and lacking strong civic institutions especially after the shattering of its society by the Bolshevik Terror—is destined to be ruled by self-promoting cliques for some time yet.

My main worry about driverless cars is how would Western journalists get their stories in the post-Soviet countries with no taxi drivers to talk to.