End of the Cold War Quotes

My life changed completely in 1989 with the fall of the wall.

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.

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.

Democratization was not a slogan, but the essence of Perestroika.

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

Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of a détente with the Soviet Union, a new feeling for peace, a seeking out of a new ally with the Soviet Union - the end of the Cold War, as Kennedy called it in his American University speech.

The nineties, ecstatic decade!

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

By the time I got to college, the Cold War was basically over.