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)

“The old ideals are dead as nails—nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman—sort of ultimate marriage—and there isn’t anything else.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)