Arthur Koestler Quotes

Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they would want it back.

My entire life was dedicated to defeating communism. I felt really great when Ronald Reagan helped us establish peace and the elimination of communism from Russia. We are now dealing with a national power, and, you know, it is a big power in the world. It's no longer being motivated by communist ideology that has it trying to overthrow democratic governments and replace them with atheistic communist dictatorships.

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.

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

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

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

Stalin is a strong, ruthless revolutionist and therefore a very potential threat to future world conditions.

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

Gorbachev's legacy is that he called time on communism, partially against his will, but in fact, he finished it off. Without violence. Without bloodshed. Beyond that, I am struggling to think of much else in terms of real legacy.

Ronald Reagan succeeded in bringing down the Iron Curtain by showing strength and resolutely standing up to the Soviet Union. President Trump needs to be similarly resolute towards Putin.

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

They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world.

I graduated in 1989, and I'd focused almost entirely on the Soviet Union and communism ... so when the Berlin wall fell, I was, well, I was screwed.

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

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

I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.

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.

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.

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

This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.