Soviet Union Won

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

    “Today he plays jazz; tomorrow he betrays his country.”
    —Stalinist slogan in the Soviet Union (1920s)

    “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)

    “Visitors who come from the Soviet Union and tell you how marvellous it is to be able to look at public buildings without advertisements stuck all over them are just telling you that they can’t decipher the cyrillic alphabet.”
    —Clive James (b. 1939)

    “A girl loves most often because she is loved,Mnot from choice on her part. She is won by the flattery of the man’s desire.”
    —Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)