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In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war. -- Pierre Laval
In Soviet Russia, party always finds you! -- Yakov Smirnoff
In America, you drive car. In Soviet Russia, car drive you! -- Yakov Smirnoff
In America, you assassinate president. In Soviet Russia, president assassinate you! -- Yakov Smirnoff
In America, your job determines your marks. In Soviet Russia, Marx determine your job! -- Yakov Smirnoff
Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood. -- Joseph Stalin
Czechoslovakia provided Soviet Russia with landing fields for aircraft, thereby increasing the threat against Germany. -- Adolf Hitler
In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, The Party can always find you! -- Yakov Smirnoff
The constitution of Soviet Russia must insure equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex, creed, race, or nationality. -- Vladimir Lenin
The fight against Jewish world Bolshevization requires a clear attitude toward Soviet Russia. You cannot drive out the Devil with Beelzebub. -- Adolf Hitler
In America, you break law. In Soviet Russia, law breaks you! In America, you watch Big Brother. In Soviet Russia, Big Brother watch you! -- Yakov Smirnoff
I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked myself what the world would be like if men lost the word 'I.' -- Ayn Rand
To overcome of our enemies we must have our own socialist militarism. We must carry along with us 90 million out of the 100 million of Soviet Russia's population. As for the rest, we have nothing to say to them. They must be annihilated. -- Grigory Zinoviev
It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests. -- John Amery
By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of God will have been banished from the Soviet Union as a remnant of the Middle Ages, which has been used for the purpose of oppressing the working classes. -- Joseph Stalin
When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the objection that, after all the devastating losses we had experienced, it would be quite sufficient to have just one task: the preservation of a dying people. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Open the books ... and you will be staggered to see how much American money has been taken from the United States Treasury for the benefit of Russia. Find out what business has been transacted for the State Bank of Soviet Russia, by its correspondent, the Chase Bank of New York [owned by the Rockefellers]. -- Louis Thomas McFadden
Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen. -- Ayn Rand
In Soviet-Russia the Jew is forging the tool with which he wants to enslave Europe. -- Julius Streicher
Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime. -- Salman Rushdie
From our perspective now, there is a not a huge understanding about the totalitarian Communism that Soviet Russia practiced during the 1950s - it was an atrocious system. -- Jay Roach
If commissars in Soviet Russia agreed to subordinate themselves to state power, they could at least plead fear in extenuation. Their counterparts in more free and open societies can plead only cowardice. -- Noam Chomsky
The orthodoxy of America is as rigid as that of Soviet Russia. There is one point of view allowed. If you start a conversation from another point of view, the words dry in your mouth. -- David Hare
If surrender could have been brought about in May, 1945, or even in June or July, before the entrance of Soviet Russia into the [Pacific] war and the use of the atomic bomb, the world would have been the gainer. -- Joseph Grew
We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme is the sanctity of human life - using the word 'sanctity' not in a mystical sense, but in the sense of 'supreme value.' -- Ayn Rand
Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then. -- Angela Merkel
I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations. -- Matt Stone
I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy. -- Daniel Silva
I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google. -- Joshua Cohen
I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia. -- Vagit Alekperov
The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it. -- Lincoln Steffens
Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB. -- Martin Cruz Smith
Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia. -- Boris Yeltsin
Thirteen years after the end of the Soviet Union, the American press establishment seemed eager to turn Ukraine's protested presidential election on November 21 into a new cold war with Russia. -- Stephen Cohen
The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia. -- Anatoly Chubais
In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society. -- Gary Shteyngart
We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road. -- Satish Kumar
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
Samuel Marshak was one of the founders of modern Russian children's literature. Soviet children used to know his poems by heart, but only since glasnost have American editors shown any interest in issuing his poems here. -- Michael Patrick Hearn
In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge. -- Jeffrey Sachs
So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it. -- Ralph Boston
NATO was built to counteract the Soviet Union in its day and time. At this point there is no threat coming from the Soviet Union, because there is no Soviet Union anymore. And where there was the Soviet Union once, there is now a number of countries, among them the new and democratic Russia. -- Vladimir Putin
Russia is actively using gas diplomacy for its expansion over the ex-Soviet space in a bid to become a regional superpower. -- Lilia Shevtsova
Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States. -- Frank Chodorov
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. -- Mike Pence
Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia -- Boris Yeltsin
People in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those that do regret it have no brain. -- Vladimir Putin

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