The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest…

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

— Vladimir Putin

The century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural catastrophe as…

— Norman Mailer

There is no doubt that the CCP is our greatest geopolitical and national security threat, and everything they do is as our adversary.

— Katie Britt

Putin probably, almost certainly, thinks that one of the great disasters of the 20th century was the demise of the Soviet Union. It's very…

— Alan Greenspan

The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire.

— Chalmers Johnson

After the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russian influence collapsed, and Moscow came to bitterly resent the Western interventions that destroyed Mr.…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

25 million of Russian people suddenly turned out to be outside the borders of the Russian Federation. They used to live in one state;…

— Vladimir Putin

Japan announced that it would not comply with this declaration [ 1956]. Later on, the Soviet Union also declared that the declaration could not…

— Vladimir Putin

In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would…

— Pierre Laval

In Soviet Russia, party always finds you!

— Yakov Smirnoff

“Should we wrap it all up and simply say that they arrested the innocent? But we omitted saying that the very concept of guilt…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“It was astonishing that the pseudo wreckers, who knew perfectly well that they weren't wreckers, believed that military men and priests were being shaken…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent…

— Enoch Powell

“The saddest thing of all was that their party represented a deviation from the conditions of the time. It was impossible to imagine that…

— Boris Pasternak