Soviet Union Stamp

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

    “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)

    “[Let] the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated. Let the open enemy to it be regarded as a Pandora with her box opened; and the disguised one, as the Serpent creeping with his deadly wiles into paradise.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

    “I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman’s candid brow.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)