Capable Quote by Leon Trotsky

In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any…

— Leon Trotsky

Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.

— Joseph Stalin

It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace.

— Kenneth Waltz

...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces.

— Mao Zedong

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

— Volodymyr Zelensky

American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.

— Joseph Stalin

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

— Ken Follett

That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.

— Leon Trotsky

If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face of surrounding…

— Joseph Stalin

Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive.

— Paul Samuelson

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play…

— Aldrich Ames

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

— Olga Tokarczuk