Achievement Quote by Ronnie Kasrils

“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

If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To all the countries of the former Soviet Union: look at us, everything is possible.

— Volodymyr Zelensky

I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and…

— Vladimir Putin

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would…

— Slavoj Zizek

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

— Vladimir Putin

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

Nothing in our lifetimes has been more heartening than when people of the former Soviet Union and Central Europe broke the grip of communism.…

— William J. Clinton

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

— Diana West

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for…

— Anonymous

“Don’t call these the “wonders of Soviet heroism" when you write about it. Those wonders really did exist. But first there had to be…

— Svetlana Alexievich

The Soviet experience was much worse than experts in the West had thought. That discovery had a tremendous impact both on the intellectual community…

— Milton Friedman