Catastrophe Quote by Vladimir Putin

The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end…

— P. J. O'Rourke

When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with incredible determination…

— Martin Amis

Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone.

— Svetlana Alexievich

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

This much I would say: Socialism has failed all over the world. In the eighties, I would hear every day that there is no…

— Subramanian Swamy

“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

I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.

— Vladimir Putin

When communism collapsed in 1989, the big story that had been hardwired into citizens of western countries - that of the global battle against…

— Adam Curtis

Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.

— Vladimir Putin

I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

— Diana West