Commonplace Quote by Leon Trotsky

“Both the United States and the Soviet Union had been born in revolution. Both embraced ideologies with global aspirations: what worked at home, their…

— John Lewis Gaddis

The Soviet Union, true to the Leninist principles of respect for the rights and national independence of all peoples great or small, has always…

— Kliment Voroshilov

“We often like to think of World War II as a triumph of freedom over totalitarianism. We conveniently forget that the Soviet Union was…

— Paul Graham

It is therefore not true that the mere existence of the Soviet Union is capable of assuring the victory of the revolution in other…

— Leon Trotsky

As a great socialist power the Soviet Union is fully aware of its responsibility to the peoples for preserving and strengthening peace. We are…

— Konstantin Chernenko

Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian…

— Vladimir Putin

“Despite Soviet 'defeat' in 1991, the ideas associated with Communism remain shockingly reputable throughout what we still know as the Free World.”

— Diana West

Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

— Oliver Tambo

“In a certain sense the country of ‘Russia’ as such did not exist: it had for centuries been an empire, whether in fact or…

— Tony Judt

It is absolutely important that we have a unified alliance and that we explain to the Russians that you cannot be a 21st-century superpower,…

— Barack Obama

My 40 years in the foreign service and the careers of many of my friends became associated with the fall of the Soviet Empire…

— Daniel Fried