Economic Quote by John Mearsheimer

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

In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Nothing in its life so became the Soviet Union as the leaving of it”

— Tony Judt

The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean…

— Leon Trotsky

Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

We have been getting out of the situation where we found ourselves in the early '90s, when the Soviet Union disappeared and the Russian…

— Sergei Lavrov

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

The jobs left, and the factories closed... the wealth, strength and confidence of America has disappeared over the horizon.

— Donald Trump

The Russian economy is way down because of the price of oil, and because the USSR was a big chunk of it.

— Michael Bloomberg

The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

In seventy years, Russia’s Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists.

— Roger Lowenstein

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

— Tom Clancy