Margarita Simonyan Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

The most noticeable thing about the Soviet collapse was that it followed a natural course.

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.

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

I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence.

If you are asking did I support the Soviet Union, yes I did. Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.

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

Building up the arms did not cause the fall of Eastern Europe.

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.

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

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

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

What did in the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union.

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

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.

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

Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union.

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.

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