Foreign Policy Doctrine - Russia / Soviet Union

Famous quotes containing the words soviet union, russia, soviet and/or union:

“In the Soviet Union everything happens slowly. Always remember that.”
—A.N. (Arkady N.)

“... gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hatpin.”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)

“So they lived. They didn’t sleep together, but they had children.”
—Russian saying popular in the Soviet period, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)

“We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.”
—Frances E. Willard 1839–1898, U.S. president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union 1879-1891, author, activist. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 137-40 (January 1887)