Country Quote by Vladimir Putin

Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to…

— Francois Mitterrand

And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet…

— Samuel P. Huntington

We are struggling with the global war on the truth. And if what we used to think of as the domain of the Soviets,…

— Craig Mazin

The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for…

— E. P. Thompson

When the Soviet Union fell, optimistic scholars believed the world had shifted inexorably in the direction of free markets and liberal democracy. Instead, the…

— Ben Shapiro

We had in the West a very romantic vision of Russia back in 1991, when the Soviet Union died and whatever is Russia began…

— Marvin Kalb

The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical and selfish,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Soviet Union attempted to export communism to the entire world. We know what came of that. Now the West is trying to export…

— Vladimir Yakunin

The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way beyond the…

— Anatoliy Golitsyn

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for…

— Anonymous

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

— Diana West

It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

— Garry Kasparov