Brezhnev Quote by Leonid Brezhnev

“It has always astonished me, Georgy Daniilovich, that those who are most repulsed by autocratic or dictatorial rule are among the first to eliminate…

— John Boyne

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

— Tony Judt

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

— Chris Christie

“but the little operative codenamed GREINER, whom I was frankly beginning to consider defeatist, insisted that the Soviets had antidotes to everything, even unfortunate…

— William T. Vollmann

“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

“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

Word spread about us in what was then the Soviet Union and we received an invite from President Brezhnev to perform there, which no…

— Liz Mitchell

The new European Soviet.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

“And when the Soviet Union was collapsing in late 1991, Dick wanted to see the dismantlement not only of the Soviet Union and the…

— Robert M. Gates

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

— Leon Trotsky

“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

A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy will begin:…

— Jean-Paul Sartre