Country Quote by Tom Clancy

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

— Angela Merkel

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

— Volodymyr Zelensky

The new European Soviet.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Russia is new in terms of nuclear. America is old.

— Donald Trump

What did in the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union.

— Robert Dallek

In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The Soviet system is how everything here works. It's very difficult to break the system. The system is big and inflexible, uneffective, and also…

— Vitali Klitschko

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 Soviet Union has become the seacoast of the universe.

— Sergei Korolev

Russia has to have a technology company of global meaning sooner or later. We should take the depth of technical culture we have here…

— Arkady Volozh

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

— Jorge Luis Borges

The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of…

— John Mearsheimer