Soviet union Quote by C.J. Chivers

“Estimates of casualties, civilian and military, are notoriously inexact, but it is likely that some 27 million Soviet citizens died as a direct result…

— John Lewis Gaddis

Although the United States lost a quarter of a million men and women, civilians and soldiers, in World War II, that's considerably less than…

— Tony Judt

“Only those who experienced our war in the East can truly picture its scale and ferocity. There are many of us who were there;…

— Wolfgang Faust

“The Russians would lose 305,000 troops in the last 42 miles approaching Berlin---about the number of American army soldiers who died in all of…

— Andrei Cherny

My 40 years in the foreign service and the careers of many of my friends became associated with the fall of the Soviet Empire…

— Daniel Fried

“Of the 3 million prisoners taken by the Soviets during the war, more than a third died in captivity.”

— Keith Lowe

In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions,…

— Paul von Hindenburg

My family suffered very major losses during the Second World War, that's true. In my father's family, there were five brothers. I think four…

— Vladimir Putin

In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions,…

— Paul von Hindenburg

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

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

“In the Soviet Union, for example, shooting or jailing political opponents at first helped the Communist Party and then Josef Stalin gain absolute power.…

— Adam Hochschild