Breakup Quote by Zbigniew Brzezinski

Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war in Afghanistan, unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

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

The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the…

— Jeffrey Sachs

I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Russia has lost an empire but not yet found a role. Russia has to decide what it wants to be. And as we know…

— Timothy Garton Ash

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

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

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not…

— Fareed Zakaria

And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

We were romantics in the 1990s and thought that communism was dead. But 10 years passed, and Putin came, and it became obvious that…

— Svetlana Alexievich

Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on…

— Otto von Bismarck