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Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense. -- Boris Spassky
The world would be better off with multiple superpowers. When Communist USSR was a superpower, the world was better off. -- Janeane Garofalo
This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces. -- Earl Browder
Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world? -- Norman Cousins
This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible. -- Natan Sharansky
I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt. -- Boris Spassky
Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion. -- Natan Sharansky
Now the opportunity to destroy the USSR has arrived. -- Sadao Araki
The USA and USSR will only agree when shrimps learn to fly. -- Nikita Khrushchev
It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology. -- Simon Sebag-Montefiore
I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported. -- Dmitri Shostakovich
Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they would want it back. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy! -- C. Wright Mills
Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in hopes of saving it. In the end he could not. -- David Hoffman
Of late, attempts have been made in the USA - at a high level and in a rather cynical form - to play the "Chinese card" against the USSR. This is a shortsighted and dangerous policy. -- Leonid Brezhnev
Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey -- Jean-Paul Sartre
I am truly happy that I am able to travel from time to time to the USSR the country I love above all. I always have been, I am now and will always be a loyal friend of the Soviet Union. -- Paul Robeson
I cannot see that any rational American. . . could conceivably try to fulfill the major national purposes of the United States through the United Nations. It would be comparable to the United States seeking to pass its legislation through the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. -- Charles Lichenstein
After visits to several Communist countries (USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, East Germany, Vietnam, China, Cuba), I feel strongly that most "revolutionary" types around the world don't realize the importance of freedom of the press and the air, a right to peaceably assemble and discuss anything, including the dangers of such discussions. -- Pete Seeger
If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial plant to the USSR's already great industrial plant, the United States would be reduced to the character of a garrison state if it were to survive at all. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Soviet Union has long been proposing to outlaw chemical weapons, to remove them from the arsenals of states. We are prepared for resolution of this problem either on a global basis or piece by piece. As one of the first steps the USSR and the other socialist countries proposed in January 1984 that agreement be reached on ridding Europe of all types of chemical weapons. -- Konstantin Chernenko
We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed. -- Natan Sharansky
In fact, we've entered a world which is arguably much more dangerous than [being] eyeball to eyeball with the USSR. -- Nicholas Meyer
The Russian economy is way down because of the price of oil, and because the USSR was a big chunk of it. -- Michael Bloomberg
Japan announced that it would not comply with this declaration [ 1956]. Later on, the Soviet Union also declared that the declaration could not be fulfilled unilaterally, by the USSR alone. -- Vladimir Putin
Let's not forget that one poll after another clearly demonstrates that well over 50% of Russian citizens still wants both socialism and the USSR back. And the Russian government is listening. -- Andre Vltchek

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