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Soviet Union Quotes

Lines shaped by an empire that no longer exists.

These speakers remember the Soviet Union less as an abstraction and more as a fact that organized decades of History, from comedians who lost their footing once it collapsed to policy watchers tracking its grain output afterward.

Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.

Quotes by Yuri Andropov

After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.

Quotes by Yakov Smirnoff

Honduras is strongly anti-Communist, maintains no diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, and has provided vital support for United States-backed rebels fighting to overthrow the Sandinistas in neighboring Nicaragua.

Quotes by Stephen Kinzer

The Soviet Union was designed for Muscovite rule, not for division into independent republics. Yet the latter is exactly what happened in 1991 - and the Kremlin has never accepted it.

Quotes by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Culture Quotes

After the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russian influence collapsed, and Moscow came to bitterly resent the Western interventions that destroyed Mr. Hussein and Colonel Qaddafi.

Quotes by Simon Sebag Montefiore

The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

Quotes by Oliver Tambo

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

Quotes by Olga Tokarczuk

The breakup of the former Soviet Union has caused its grain output to plummet, but if the new republics recover economically, they could produce vast amounts of food.

Quotes by Norman Borlaug

Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.

Quotes by Newt Gingrich

Emotion Quotes

In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

Quotes by Nancy Roman

If we look decades ago, we know that NATO allies contributed a lot of equipment close to the border of the Soviet Union.

Quotes by Kersti Kaljulaid

After Stalin died, the Soviet Union began inching toward the world again. The ban on jazz was lifted. Ernest Hemingway was published; the Pushkin Museum in Moscow hosted an exhibit of the works of Picasso.

Quotes by Keith Gessen

Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.

Quotes by Eugene Jarecki

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

Quotes by Billy Graham

History Quotes

The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.

Quotes by Barbara Amiel

Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.

Quotes by Angela Merkel

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

Quotes by Anatoly Chubais

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this Soviet Union quotes page cover?
It gathers lines about the USSR as both a political force and a lived reality, touching on Cold War rhetoric, the 1991 collapse, and its lingering economic aftershocks like grain shortages.
Why would someone search for quotes about the Soviet Union?
People researching Cold War history or looking for concise, quotable summaries of a complicated era often land here rather than reading a full textbook chapter.
Is there a quote connecting the Soviet Union to later American politics?
Yes, one speaker draws a chain of causation from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan to the Soviet Union's eventual end, treating the three as linked events rather than separate stories.
Does any quote mention the economic fallout of the collapse?
One notes that the breakup caused grain output to plummet, while suggesting the new republics could recover and even produce more food if their economies stabilized.
What other pages go well with this one?
See History quotes for more on major twentieth-century turning points, or Culture quotes for how comedy and society shifted after 1991.

One quote even credits Ronald Reagan's presidency to the earlier Carter years, tying superpower rivalry to Identity and national pride. Explore quotes on Culture for more Cold War-adjacent reading.