Facts Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev

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

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

When the USSR collapsed, I was 11, and unlike many people, I don't miss it.

— Margarita Simonyan

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

After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought the last Soviet generation was going to be the great hope for democracy. When that failed, their…

— Masha Gessen

Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet…

— Vladimir Putin

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of…

— Anonymous

Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.

— Vladimir Putin

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for…

— Anonymous

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

“Estimates of casualties, civilian and military, are notoriously inexact, but it is likely that some 27 million Soviet citizens died as a direct result…

— John Lewis Gaddis

Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.

— George Galloway