Bloody Quote by Doris Lessing

You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really nasty guys,…

— Hillary Clinton

The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists, and Afghan…

— David Frum

They [the union] were members of the Communist Party - they didn't care one way or another about Russia, they just cared about the…

— Noam Chomsky

What did in the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union.

— Robert Dallek

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

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

— Alexander Haig

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

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace - not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses…

— J. William Fulbright

Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been…

— Xi Jinping

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

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 assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of that Cold…

— Robert Conquest