Alliance Quote by Norman Davies

For two generations up through the mid-1980s, many thought we were losing the Cold War, even in early 1989, few believed that Poland's solidarity…

— Daniel Fried

It is decisive to completely destroy Warsaw.

— Heinz Guderian

The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.

— Vladimir Putin

The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained.

— Vladimir Putin

Warsaw's historic heart was deliberately almost entirely destroyed towards the end of the Second World War by the German occupying troops. After the war,…

— Carol Drinkwater

When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of…

— Rene Cassin

Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“We thought that not only would Germany come out of the war defeated, but Russia too. Things have turned out rather differently. In today's…

— Jerzy Andrzejewski

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

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

“In Poland there is a meaning to defeat that perhaps is unknown in countries differently situated. Along with a strong sense of unity as…

— Jan Karski

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

— Vladimir Putin