Believe Quote by Sergei Lavrov

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

First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country.

— George W. Bush

I didn't believe that the Soviet Union would ever break down.

— Olga Tokarczuk

“After fighting for four long years, we were completely surprised by the Soviets’ efforts to absorb Eastern Europe, and their rejection of almost all wartime…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.

— Angela Merkel

Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now…

— Hal Lindsey

The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation with Communists…

— Roger Nash Baldwin

I believe that renunciation of the Soviet Union was an expression of the free will of the Russian people.

— Vladislav Surkov

The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was.

— Noam Chomsky

At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight…

— Klaus Fuchs

Was the Soviet Union reformable? I would say no. They said, 'Okay, the Soviet Union isn't working.' They would say, 'No, it's great. We…

— Marine Le Pen

In fact, we haven't ever really recalibrated our foreign policy commitments since the end of the Cold War. We still have alliances throughout Asia…

— Kevin Gutzman