Doubt Quote by Henry A. Kissinger

I didn't believe that the Soviet Union would ever break down.

— Olga Tokarczuk

When I used to theorize about a nuclear standoff, I didn't really have to understand what was happening inside the Soviet Union. It is…

— Thomas Schelling

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for…

— Anonymous

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.

— Ken Follett

To all the countries of the former Soviet Union: look at us, everything is possible.

— Volodymyr Zelensky

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

Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone.

— Svetlana Alexievich

The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation with Communists…

— Roger Nash Baldwin

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

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

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

I came up during the cold war, and during the cold war it was always possible with the then Soviet Union - the Russian…

— Ashton Carter