Bottom line Quote by Thomas Geoghegan

“In the end, the “model” that came into existence in the USSR was not socialist but totalitarian. This is a serious matter to be…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

“So stagnant was life in the Soviet Union then that even a sclerotic socialist system like East Germany’s seemed prosperous by comparison,”

— Steven Lee Myers

The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to…

— Jack Kemp

“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

There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in…

— Matthew Specktor

Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“to the American power elite one of the longest lasting and most essential foreign policy goals has been preventing the rise of any society…

— William Blum

During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy as a…

— Thomas Sowell

The example of Russia reminds us that keeping up that enormous dead weight of the security apparatus required to enforce the ideological conformity to…

— David Graeber

When you look around the world, every place that socialism has been implemented, it has failed miserably, destroying the economy, freedom and - in…

— Rick Perry

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

— Diana West

The secular socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.

— Newt Gingrich