Independent Quote by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the…

— Boris Yeltsin

Unless Russia is face with an iron fist and strong language, another is in the making. Only one language do they understand - 'How…

— Harry S. Truman

Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war in Afghanistan, unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.

— Jack Kemp

The Russians have turned out to be the largest divided nation in the world nowadays. Is that not a problem?

— Vladimir Putin

Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors of Russia, if they…

— George F. Kennan

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

— Vladimir Lenin

The Soviet Union was, by the 1970s and 1980s, relatively stable and predictable. Putin's Russia is much more volatile. Nuclear policy is really in…

— Anne Applebaum

Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.

— Rand Paul

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

— Olga Tokarczuk