Berlin Quote by Boris Yeltsin

What did in the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union.

— Robert Dallek

Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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

— Joseph Stalin

Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I didn't believe that the Soviet Union would ever break down.

— Olga Tokarczuk

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

— Vladimir Lenin

Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries…

— Barbara Amiel

The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of…

— John Mearsheimer

The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all…

— Joseph Stalin

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.

— Ken Follett