soviet quotes

   Wenn das deutscheVolk dieWaffen niederlegte, wu«  rden die Sowjets†ganz Ost- und Su« d osteuropa zuzu«  glich des gr o« ÞtenTeiles des Reiches besetzen.Vor diesem einschlieÞlich der Sowjetunion riesigenTerritorium wu«  rde sich sofort ein eisernerVorhang heruntersenken. Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets†would occupyall eastern and south-eastern Europe together with the greater part of the Reich.Over all thisterritory, whichwith the Soviet Unionwould be of enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend. See also Churchill 217:92.

- (Paul) Joseph Goebbels
  In Das Reich, a Nazi propaganda weekly, quoted in The Times and the Manchester Guardian on 23 Feb.

   If the Russian word 'perestroika' has easily entered the international lexicon, it isduetomorethanjust interest in what isgoing on in the Soviet Union. Now the whole world needs restructuring; that is, progressive development, a fundamental change.

- Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
  Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World.

Itake it as a compliment whenanagent ofthelargest and most heinous bully of the century, the Soviet Union, accuses me of being a bully.

- Alexander Meigs,Jr Haig
  On how he was seen as US Secretary of State by former Soviet  Ambassador  Anatoly Dobrynin. In the Washington Post, 27 Oct.

Civil war is impossible in the Soviet Union.

-Valentin Sergeyevich Pavlov
  Interview,The Independent,18 Apr.

The Soviet game is chess†ours is poker.We will have to play a creative mixture of both games.

- George P(ratt) Shultz
  Comment to President Reagan. Recalled in Turmoil and Triumph.

InTurkey it was always1952, in Malaysia1937; Afghanistan was1910 and Bolivia1949. It is twenty years ago inthe Soviet Union, ten in Norway, five in France.It is always last year in Australia and next week in Japan.

- Paul Edward Theroux
  The Kingdom ByThe Sea, ch.1.

Around me, around them [the dissidents], the total, all- eclipsing Soviet world, which renders any other world powerless and far away, had become profoundly, morally hostile.

- Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron
  Among the Russians (published in the US asWhere the Nights are Longest).

The Soviet Republic needs an army that will be able to fight and conquer.

- Leon originally Lev Davidovich Bronstein Trotsky
  Speech to the Moscow Soviet of Workers', Soldiers'and Peasants' Deputies,19 Mar.

The Soviet Union remains a superpower in the military and nuclear senseonly its economy is in difficulty. People want me to lead the troops out or to chuck them over the border, but I have neither the strength nor the will to do it.

- Lech Walesa
  In TheTimes,17 Apr. English poet  and Sinologist.  He was  a distinguished translator of Chinese andJapanese literature.