Soviet union Quotes

The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.

— Vladimir Putin

The Soviet Union has become the seacoast of the universe.

— Sergei Korolev

Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone.

— Svetlana Alexievich

“In the Soviet Union, it's takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

— Joseph Stalin

The Soviet Union is an Evil Empire, and Soviet communism is the focus of evil in the modern world

— Ronald Reagan

“I have seen the Future and it works. [remark after visiting the Soviet Union in 1919]”

— Lincoln Steffens

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

— Vladimir Putin

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

— Anatoly Chubais

When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face…

— Joseph Stalin

We know that the governments in most of the successor states formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union are replaced through…

— Garry Kasparov

I remember starting to read about the Soviet Union when I was eight years old; I think I was reading my father's…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

In Russia, the people have been brought up tough. It used to be the Soviet Union. The thing everybody thinks of when…

— Artem Lobov

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on…

— Aldrich Ames

Of course, in no case would we allow the creation of a regional union in the Balkans, directed against the Soviet Union…

— Todor Zhivkov

That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.

— Leon Trotsky

I spent the '80s in the Soviet Union and when I came to America it was '89 and I was in an…

— Regina Spektor

“Submission can be forced with brutality. In the last century alone, over 100 million humans were murdered in the name of ideology…

— Erika Ilves

One of the most violent attacks on the Church in the Soviet Union was under Kruschev when, during a period of economic…

— George Pattison

Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that…

— Barack Obama

“Kissinger warned about the dangers of dealing with the Soviet Union precisely at the moment that Reagan was able to achieve real…

— Jacob Heilbrunn

In Soviet times, the border was closed, so we couldn't get out of the country, and I had been reading Robinson Crusoe.…

— Wladimir Klitschko

During the Cold War, tensions between the West and the Soviet Union affected virtually all countries worldwide. As a result, throughout Latin…

— Juan Manuel Santos

After the demise of the Soviet Union, we had many problems of our own for which no one was responsible but ourselves:…

— Vladimir Putin

How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation…

— Vanessa Redgrave

One ironic thing is that although (the Soviet Union) was one of the most oppressive systems, with no respect for the individual,…

— Gabe Polsky

“At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for having done something. They imprisoned and executed…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“During the heat of the space race in the 1960s, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided it needed a ballpoint…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The isolationists kept up a loud chorus of denunciation and formed the America First Committee to make sure that the ‘mistake’ of…

— Hugh Brogan

“In 1994, the FBI discovered its agent Robert Hanssen—a longtime spy for the Soviet Union—had on August 7, 1989, placed in a…

— Garrett M. Graff

“At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a partner to the European…

— Masha Gessen

“The Soviet Union suffered 65 percent of all Allied military deaths, China 23 percent, Yugoslavia 3 percent, the United States and Britain…

— Max Hastings

“You are claiming that the Soviet authorities began and influenced the existence of the Democratic Party [in Iran]. That is the basis…

— James Aldridge

“On October 26, 1963, Nikita Khrushchev contacted President Kennedy and offered to remove the missiles from Cuba in exchange for a promise…

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

“Khrushchev told Norman Cousins, a few months after the crisis, his reaction at the time: When I asked the military advisors if…

— Daniel Ellsberg

“The fact that no one made demands on her knowledge in her special field was lucky for Simochka. Not only she but…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The disaster at the Chernobyl plant, along with the war in Afghanistan and the cruise-missile question, is generally seen today as the…

— Geert Mak

“Consider this: in February of 1966, the Soviet Union soft-landed a space probe on the moon. Humanity has been launching programs ever…

— A.G. Riddle

“Patriarchy creates coercive background conditions for women, and thus patriarchy, not capitalism, is to blame for women’s exploitation under capitalism. Women are…

— Cudd/Holmstrom

“The Soviets replaced him with a non-Jewish figure, Imre Nagy. Nagy was a Communist, but a reformer rather than a Stalinist. He…

— Alex von Tunzelmann