--- title: "5 Happened Soviet Quotes by 5 authors" description: "Browse 5 Happened Soviet quotes by 5 authors. Discover the best Happened Soviet sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/760/mikhail-gorbachev-2500_chill_what-happened-to-the-soviet-union-happen_183176.jpg" --- > [What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-gorbachev/what-happened-to-the-soviet-union-happened-mainly-for-domestic/) [Mikhail Gorbachev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-gorbachev/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/760/mikhail-gorbachev-2500_chill_what-happened-to-the-soviet-union-happen_183176.jpg) > [The fall of the Berlin Wall really demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a bad system, and what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milton-friedman/the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall-really-demonstrated-beyond-the-shadow-of/) [Milton Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milton-friedman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aaa/milton-friedman-616_berlin_the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall-really-demon_580635.png) > [I never thought I'd see the day when the U.S. government could listen in on phone conversations or read private mail without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chellie-pingree/i-never-thought-i-d-see-the-day-when-the-u-s-government-could-listen/) [Chellie Pingree](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chellie-pingree/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12d/chellie-pingree-15233_communication_i-never-thought-i-d-see-the-day-when-the_960937.jpg) > [The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusto-pinochet/the-freedoms-which-had-been-so-hard-won-from-colonial-domination-were/) [Augusto Pinochet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusto-pinochet/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/637/augusto-pinochet-22136_cases_the-freedoms-which-had-been-so-hard-won_1024753.jpg) > [“At night in the tent, he leaves the flaps open, to feel the fire outside, to hear Anthony in the trailer, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/at-night-in-the-tent-he-leaves-the-flaps-open-to-feel-the-fire/) [Paullina Simons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paullina-simons/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18b/paullina-simons-1314_last-night_at-night-in-the-tent-he-leaves-the-flaps_1617556.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happened-soviet/#itemlist", "name": "Happened Soviet Quotes", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. 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She asks him to lie on his stomach, and he does, though he can't see her, while she runs her bare breasts over his disfigured back, her nipples hardening into his scars. You feel that? she whispers. Oh, he does. He still feels it. She kisses him from the top of his head downward, from his buzz-cut scalp, his shoulder blades, his wounds. Inch by inch she cries over him and kisses her own salt away, murmuring into him, why did you have to keep running? Look what they did to you. Why didn't you just stay put? Why couldn't you feel I was coming for you? You thought I was dead, he says. You thought I had been killed and pushed through the ice in Lake Ladoga. And what really happened was, I was a Soviet man left in a Soviet prison. Wasn't I dead? He is fairly certain he is alive now, and while Tatiana lies on top of his back and cries, he remembers being caught by the dogs a kilometer from Oranienburg and held in place by the Alsatians until Karolich arived, and being flogged in Sachsenhausen's main square and then chained and tattooed publicly with the 25-point star to remind him of his time for Stalin, and now she lies on his back, kissing the scars he received when he tried to escape to make his way back to her so she could kiss him. As he drives across Texas, Alexander remembers himself in Germany lying in the bloody straw after being beaten and dreaming of her kissing him, and these dreams morph with the memories of last night, and suddenly she is kissing not the scars but the raw oozing wounds, and he is in agony for she is crying and the brine of her tears is eating away the meat of his flesh, and he is begging her to stop because he can't take it anymore. Kiss something else, he pleads. Anything else. 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