Capable Quote by Leon Trotsky

“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

The enemies of the Soviet state calculate that the heavy loss we have borne will lead to disorder and confusion in our ranks. But…

— Lavrentiy Beria

In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.

— Vladimir Lenin

The Soviet Union had only one party. You couldn't express yourself freely; you couldn't admit belief in God. And yet this terrible regime understood…

— Andris Nelsons

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

Our problem was that in the American approach to Soviet affairs policy has oscillated between people who take an essentially psychological approach and people…

— Henry A. Kissinger

“If political scientists couldn’t predict the downfall of the Soviet Union—perhaps the most important event in the latter half of the twentieth century—then what…

— Nate Silver

“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

“As we walk out to the street my friend points out a sign on the other side of the road, which instructs people to…

— Greg Hopkinson

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

Under Stalin, artists weren't dissidents; all they hoped was to survive and write.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and…

— Vladimir Putin