Collapsed Quote by Margarita Simonyan

I remember my time growing up. It was a little bit difficult because the Soviet Union was broken.

— Gennady Golovkin

Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.

— Vladimir Putin

Communism destroyed so many generations. I look at my grandparents and their generation, and it's as if their lives were taken from them. It's…

— Anton Yelchin

I was 6 when communism was finished.

— Joanna Kulig

In 1980 I was a red kid and no one could have said anything bad about the Soviet Union. At least this is how…

— Lubos Motl

Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone.

— Svetlana Alexievich

When the Soviet Union was dissolved, most of us didn't even have the feeling that the country was falling apart. We thought we would…

— Vladislav Surkov

Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that…

— Jane Smiley

It was a very difficult time after the fall of the Soviet Union. Jobs were difficult, and you had to fight to have anything…

— Gennady Golovkin

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

I remember starting to read about the Soviet Union when I was eight years old; I think I was reading my father's 'New York…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves