Beyond Quote by 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

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

— 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

Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries…

— Barbara Amiel

For 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War ended, we…

— Norman Mailer

The Cold War may be 'over' for the West. For the Soviets it has entered a new, active and promising phase.

— Anatoliy Golitsyn

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

— Olga Tokarczuk

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are…

— Merab Mamardashvili

My 40 years in the foreign service and the careers of many of my friends became associated with the fall of the Soviet Empire…

— Daniel Fried

When the Soviet Union was dissolved, most of us didn't even have the feeling that the country was falling apart. We thought we would…

— Vladislav Surkov

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

— Vladimir Putin

“For the majority of ordinary Russians, especially for those of a certain age who identified themselves as ‘Soviet’, the 1990s were little short of…

— Orlando Figes