Difficult Quote by Mstislav Rostropovich

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

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

— 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

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

— Margarita Simonyan

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

— Aminatta Forna

In the '80s, we were living in the U.S.S.R., where anti-Semitism was a deeply ingrained part of the culture. Being a Jewish person in…

— Milana Vayntrub

When the war started, we became refugees, and it was a really tough time. I was six years old. These were really hard times.…

— Luka Modric

Famine, plague, death and war... that's a pretty good description of 1917-18. The war was meant to end quickly, but by 1917 it seemed…

— Philip Jenkins

The biggest challenge in Russia was the cold weather at first but after playing games at -12, I think I am settling down quickly.

— Hulk

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had…

— Jimmy Carter

My childhood in the Soviet Union was not terrible, it was very joyful.

— Jaak Kilmi

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov