Soviet union Quote by Robert M. Gates

“He who does not regret the breakup of the Soviet Union has no heart. He who wants to revive it in its previous form…

— Michael Rank

He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the Soviet Union…

— Anthony Horowitz

“He who does not regret the break-up of the Soviet Union has no heart; he who wants to revive it in its previous form…

— Vladimir Putin

“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

“For more than five years, I’d made little progress with my efforts at quiet diplomacy—for one thing, the Soviet leaders kept dying on me.”

— Ronald Reagan

“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

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

“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

“For the majority of ordinary Russians, especially for those of a certain age who identified themselves as ‘Soviet’, the 1990s were little short of…

— Orlando Figes

“Besides, this story, my story, is a lot more interesting than some dried up old Russians. Why? This story has dicks, lots and lots…

— Nick Pageant