Credit Quote by Norman Davies

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

— Donald Tusk

“In Warsaw, you also remember that you are in a Communist-controlled country, though by all accounts the control is now humane and lenient, judged…

— Martha Gellhorn

The same people the Americans sent over - that we sent over to advise the Russians, we also sent over to advise the Poles…

— Daniel Fried

By the 1970s, Western sanctions had hollowed out the Soviet economy. Ultimately, however, what brought down the Soviets was their inability to repair the…

— Erin O'Toole

What did in the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union.

— Robert Dallek

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

— Barbara Amiel

“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

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

For Germany, Poland is now a more important trade partner than Russia. With respect to history, our peoples will require more time for the…

— Jaroslaw Kaczynski

“Despite Soviet 'defeat' in 1991, the ideas associated with Communism remain shockingly reputable throughout what we still know as the Free World.”

— Diana West

Now the opportunity to destroy the USSR has arrived.

— Sadao Araki