Collapse Quote by Roger Scruton

“John O’Sullivan has forcefully argued that the simultaneous presence in the highest offices of Reagan, Thatcher and Pope John Paul II was the cause…

— Roger Scruton

Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.

— Norman Mailer

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

“And when the Soviet Union was collapsing in late 1991, Dick wanted to see the dismantlement not only of the Soviet Union and the…

— Robert M. Gates

“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

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

— Vladimir Putin

When I used to theorize about a nuclear standoff, I didn't really have to understand what was happening inside the Soviet Union. It is…

— Thomas Schelling

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

— Vladimir Putin

I think if someone else other than Reagan, someone less of a hardliner, had been in power then the breakthrough in ending the Cold…

— Eduard Shevardnadze

Reagan's defense buildup and SDI, so ridiculed at the time, pressed Gorbachev, while his economy was collapsing, to make arms deals and improve relations…

— Michael Beschloss

The collapse of the Soviet Union could not have been a source of national pride for many in Russia. The one person who has…

— Brandon Webb

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