I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy…

People in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those that do regret…

— Vladimir Putin

Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian…

— Vladimir Putin

The countries that have risen and separated out as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union are, on the whole, following freer…

— Milton Friedman

I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few…

— Nelson DeMille

“The Soviet response was silence, followed by bellicose denial, followed by efforts to derail the international investigation. It was eight years after the collapse…

— Anonymous

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

— Garry Kasparov

The collapse of the Soviet bloc ended the massive subsidies that had kept the Cuban economy afloat. The once-vaunted education and health care systems…

— Tom Gjelten

Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian…

— Vladimir Putin

We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the US-Soviet antagonisms.

— Brent Scowcroft

[2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this has been…

— Steven Knight

You would think that if neoliberals were in any way honest, after the collapse of the Soviet Union the first thing to do is…

— David Graeber

We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going…

— Andrzej Wajda

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…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help noticing that…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The mythology of the Reagan presidency is that he induced the collapse of the Soviet Union by luring it into unsustainable military spending and…

— Glenn Greenwald