Tag: Soviet Union

Nation-State

Statements

  1 /  12 
Date 
2007-09-17 There are ways to live with a nuclear Iran.
Let's face it, we lived with a nuclear Soviet Union, we've lived with a nuclear China, and we're living with (other) nuclear powers as well."
-- John Abizaid, retired U.S. Army general, in remarks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank
2006-10-01 Uzbekistan is a former Soviet Union state
2006-10-01 Kyrgystan is a former Soviet Union state
2006 / 2006-12-31 Georgia was once part of the Soviet Union
2005-10-01 Georgia is a former Soviet Union state
2001-10-21 Osama bin Laden, talking to al-Jazeera correspondent Taysee Alluni from Kabul, the sheik explained that "Things are not as the West sees them, believing there is an organization with a specific name, al-Qa‘ida. This is a very old name. It was not our intention that it should be used in this manner. Abu ‘Ubaida al-Banshiri's brother set up a base [in Afghanistan, ed.] for training the young to fight the perverse, arrogant, brutal, terrorist Soviet empire… It was that training camp that was called “the base” [al-Qa‘ida in Arabic, ed.]."
1999 In a global review of the outlook for Big Oil at the London Institute of Petroleum, Dick Cheney, as Halliburton CEO, made the following comment: "By some estimates there will be an average of two per cent annual growth in global oil demand over the years ahead along with conservatively a three per cent natural decline in production from existing reserves. That means by 2010 we will need on the order of an additional fifty million barrels a day. So where is the oil going to come from? Governments and the national oil companies are obviously controlling about ninety per cent of the assets. Oil remains fundamentally a government business. While many regions of the world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle East with two thirds of the world‘s oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies. Even though companies are anxious for greater access there, progress continues to be slow. It is true that technology, privatisation and the opening up of a number of countries have created many new opportunities in areas around the world for various oil companies, but looking back to the early 1990‘s, expectations were that significant amounts of the world‘s new resources would come from such areas as the former Soviet Union and from China. Of course that didn‘t turn out quite as expected. Instead it turned out to be deep water successes that yielded the bonanza of the 1990‘s."
1998-01 “What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?”
-- Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser, when asked in an interview with the French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur whether he regretted “having given arms and advice to future terrorists”.
1996 "The Soviet Union was an evil empire"
-- Robert Gates in the concluding chapter of his 1996 memoir, "From the Shadows."
1994 “Probably almost 62 million people, nearly 54,800,000 of them citizens, have been murdered by the Communist Party – the government – of the Soviet Union.”
”It is impossible to comprehend this democide (…), it is over four times the battle dead (15 milion) for all nations in the Second World War. Indeed it exceeds the total number of deaths (nearly 34 million) from all this century’s international, civil, guerilla, and liberation wars, including the Russian civil war.”
“Part of this mass killing was genocide, as in the wholesale murder of hundreds of thousands of Don Cossacks in 1919, the intentional starvation to death of about 5 million Ukrainian peasants in 1932-33, or the deportation to mass death of 50,000 to 60,000 Estonians in 1949. Part was mass murder, as of the wholesale extermination of perhaps 6,500,000 ‘ kulaks’ (in effect, the better-off peasants and those resisting collectivization) from 1930 to 1937, the execution of perhaps a million Party members in the Great Terror of 1937 – 1938, and the massacre of all Trotskyites in forced labor camps.”
-- According to R.J. Rummel, who has tried to calculate the number of victims of government repression in the twentieth century in his book Death by Government

Arguments

No results












All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners.
Stories, Arguments and Comments are owned by the Poster.
The Rest copyright © 2007 Argumentations.com. All rights reserved. Argumentations.com provides material for research or educational purposes only. We do not warrant the correctness of its contents. The risk from using it lies entirely with the user. While using this site, you agree to have read and accepted our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Argumentations.com is far from perfect so if you have any critiques, questions, comments or problems about this site please tell us. Click here to send your feedback. And if you like Argumentations.com please link to this site. It will really help a lot.
Embed this Tag Sphere on your website
Past the following code to your website or blog: