Politics Quote by Masha Gessen

“The Soviet regime robbed people not only of their ability to live freely but also of the ability to understand fully what had been…

— Masha Gessen

“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

“I hated life in the Soviet Union. You had to pretend something you didn't feel.”

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

— Tony Judt

“To understand Russia today, you must understand the trauma of the nineties. Everything we had, everything we had been told, was swept away. We…

— Daniel Silva

“The Soviet state was, in fact, almost perfectly designed to make people unhappy. It denied its citizens not just hope, but also trust. Every…

— Oliver Bullough

“The most important one was the belief, which went back to Lenin, that capitalists would never be able to cooperate with one another for…

— John Lewis Gaddis

“Russia's fundamental problem is not that it is a poor country struggling to modernize, but rather that it is a rich country struggling to…

— Fareed Zakaria

“Either way, it is a curio of the moment that hard-left advocates of ‘all power to the soviets’ were delegated by a soviet opponent…

— China Miéville

A Russian Reversal quote on Uncyclopedia's Soviet Union article? How original.

— Yakov Smirnoff

“I suppose you could say that the Russians had a big appetite for life, or you could say they were dissolute and decadent, which…

— Nelson DeMille

“I am not arguing that the Soviet Union did not present a threat to the security of the United States. I am arguing that…

— James McCartney