Able Quote by David Frum

When the Soviet Union was dissolved, most of us didn't even have the feeling that the country was falling apart. We thought we would…

— Vladislav Surkov

Why were the Europeans bothered about the Soviet Union at all? It was nothing to do with us. China had nothing to do with…

— Doris Lessing

It was not Soviet people who formed the American Communist Party.

— J. Stalin

The organizing principle of the United States defensive foreign policy had been opposition to the Soviet Union. There is no more Soviet Union.

— Mark Shields

In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And…

— Simon Sinek

They [the Soviets] intend...to induce the Americans to adopt their own 'restructuring' and convergence of the Soviet and American systems using to this end…

— Anatoliy Golitsyn

The Soviet Union began by banishing God. The United States began as a community of people who wanted to worship God as they chose.…

— Richard M. Nixon

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

— Alexander Haig

When the United States worked to contain the Soviet Union during the Cold War, we went to enormous lengths to get as many countries…

— John Mearsheimer

During my childhood in the Cold War, my family saw America as a great ally in our common struggle to keep back Soviet communism.

— Gavin Esler

“During the Cold War, the Soviet Union never could accomplish that because it was a resource exporter and was in competition with these countries.…

— Gordon Chang

The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russia lies in Washington rather than Moscow. After 1989, Russia…

— Martin Jacques