George Galloway Quotes

Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.

Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.

Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.

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

Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.

I was very anti-Soviet and very pro-Russian..

I remember my time growing up. It was a little bit difficult because the Soviet Union was broken.

When the USSR collapsed, I was 11, and unlike many people, I don't miss it.

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

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

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

What did in the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union.

Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever.

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold.

The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.

We are witnessing the collapse of Bolshevism.

Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.

Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.

Was the Soviet Union reformable? I would say no. They said, 'Okay, the Soviet Union isn't working.' They would say, 'No, it's great. We just need democracy, political pluralism, private property.' And then there was no Soviet Union. The European Union is the same.

In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.

Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did more to liberate people by defeating the Soviet Union and freeing eastern Europe than the Obamas, the Clintons, and Kerrys of this world ever have. They were all on the wrong side of that debate.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, Reagan and Thatcher displayed Churchillian magnanimity towards Gorbachev's broken nation. Relations were never better. There was no triumphalism.