Army Quote by Victor Serge

What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean…

— Leon Trotsky

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

Democracy was being saved from Communism by getting rid of democracy.

— Juan Bosch

“in reality, after the fall of communism in the late 1980s the world learned of some of the worst environmental disasters imaginable—rivers so polluted…

— Thomas J. DiLorenzo

When you read about the end of the Soviet Union, it's always about the "death of socialism." They never say "the death of democracy."…

— Noam Chomsky

What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning…

— Charles Taylor

After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought the last Soviet generation was going to be the great hope for democracy. When that failed, their…

— Masha Gessen

The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an…

— John Dos Passos

“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

Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

— Fran Lebowitz