Communism Quote by Helmut Kohl

If we talk about changes of power in Russia, that has occurred several times in the past century. After Stalin came Khrushchev, who implemented…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

— David Remnick

I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.

— Vladimir Putin

Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that…

— Boris Yeltsin

We were romantics in the 1990s and thought that communism was dead. But 10 years passed, and Putin came, and it became obvious that…

— Svetlana Alexievich

The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of…

— Alexander Zinoviev

“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

The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.

— Vladimir Putin

Soviet-era nostalgia has strong support among the people. But not among the elite and, in my opinion, not with the president. We are not…

— Vladislav Surkov

“The most enduring lesson of the Cuban missile crisis is that, in a world with nuclear weapons, a classic military victory is an illusion.…

— Michael Dobbs

Whatever the drawbacks and failures I am convinced that in years to come humanity will look back to Soviet achievements as a source of…

— Ronnie Kasrils