Failure Quote by Diana West

“The Soviet regime robbed people not only of their ability to live freely but also of the ability to understand fully what had been…

— Masha Gessen

“If political scientists couldn’t predict the downfall of the Soviet Union—perhaps the most important event in the latter half of the twentieth century—then what…

— Nate Silver

In 1989, with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of communism, it seemed that the liberal story had won. The liberal…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Communism went against life, against man’s fundamental needs, against the need for freedom, the need to be enterprising, to associate freely against the will…

— Gordon G. Chang

“We often like to think of World War II as a triumph of freedom over totalitarianism. We conveniently forget that the Soviet Union was…

— Paul Graham

“When Communism fell in 1989, the temptation for Western commentators to gloat triumphantly proved irresistible. This, it was declared, marked the end of History.…

— Tony Judt

“The thing that made Communism seem so plausible to me was my own lack of logic which failed to distinguish between the reality of…

— Thomas Merton

“Communism is a judgment on our failure to make democracy real and to follow through on the revolutions that we initiated. Our only hope…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“For the majority of ordinary Russians, especially for those of a certain age who identified themselves as ‘Soviet’, the 1990s were little short of…

— Orlando Figes

“Communism is the real movement that destitutes the existing state of things.”

— The Invisible Committee

It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

— Garry Kasparov

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

— Ronald Reagan