Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war in Afghanistan, unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!
We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender.
I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism.
Moscow is simply unwilling to recognize the right of self-determination of nations.
I will say that the lead cosmonaut trainer - I mean, we were working with professional cosmonaut trainers outside of Moscow. And the lead one, at the end of the project, announced to the entire group that he wanted Trish [Sie] to be on his team forevermore.
The messages on our banners in 1979 - freedom, opportunity, family, enterprise, ownership - are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig, Warsaw, Budapest and even Moscow.
There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.
I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.
I think Putin has already gotten used to the idea of Obama and his secretary of state, John Kerry, making noise - it just doesn't seem to impress Moscow at all.
If people are rude in Moscow, at least it's in Russian.
I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.
The quality of Moscow's hired killers had slipped since the KGB's glory days.
My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn't do it.
All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
Our first stop was red square, the heart of Moscow - if Moscow has one.
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. . . . It was hay that allowed populations to grow and civilizations to flourish among the forests of Northern Europe. Hay moved the greatness of Rome to Paris and London, and later to Berlin and Moscow and New York.
If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice and second would be New York.
