Bitter Quote by Lavrentiy Beria

We still have many shortcomings and failures to fulfill the Party's demands, especially as regards the liquidation in some of our people of survivals…

— Filipp Golikov

The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way beyond the…

— Anatoliy Golitsyn

“When reason, common sense, and decency are assaulted often enough, then personality is crippled, and human intelligence disintegrates or is warped. The barrier between…

— Frank Ellis

Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment.

— Chris Christie

“In the Soviet Union, it's takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

— Joseph Stalin

“He who does not regret the breakup of the Soviet Union has no heart. He who wants to revive it in its previous form…

— Michael Rank

“Consider the blundering anarchic system of the United States the stupidity of some of its lawmakers, the violent reaction, the slowness of its ability…

— John Steinbeck

The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of…

— Leon Trotsky

People in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those that do regret…

— Vladimir Putin

I fail to see what dangers surrounding states can see in the ideas of the Soviet people if these states are really firmly seated…

— Joseph Stalin

“He who does not regret the break-up of the Soviet Union has no heart; he who wants to revive it in its previous form…

— Vladimir Putin

The downfall of democratic institutions in Russia doesn't add to the self-confidence of either [Vladimir] Putin or his friends, as the loss of power…

— Garry Kasparov