Country Quote by Vladislav Surkov

The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists, and Afghan…

— David Frum

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian…

— Vladimir Putin

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

I didn't believe that the Soviet Union would ever break down.

— Olga Tokarczuk

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

I remember when the Cold War ended, how quickly the United States was swept by a nationalistic fervor and turned against Saddam Hussein. As…

— Connie Zweig

The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation with Communists…

— Roger Nash Baldwin

We have been getting out of the situation where we found ourselves in the early '90s, when the Soviet Union disappeared and the Russian…

— Sergei Lavrov

Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian…

— Vladimir Putin

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

Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been…

— Xi Jinping