Vladimir Putin Quotes About Soviet Union

Quotes about: Soviet Union

• There used to be the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. There used to be Soviet troops in the GDR. And we must honestly admit that they were occupation troops, which remained in Germany after WWII under the guise of allied troops. Now these occupation troops are gone, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and the Warsaw Pact is no more. There is no Soviet threat, but NATO and U.S. troops are still in Europe. What for?

  Vladimir Putin

  Europe, Gone, Occupation

  Source: russialist.org

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

  Vladimir Putin

  Demise, Unions, Provocative

  Speech on national TV, April 25, 2005.

• Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military.

  Vladimir Putin

  Military, War, Years

  Interview with Matthew Chance, edition.cnn.com. August 29, 2008.

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

  Vladimir Putin

  Regret, Heart, Brain

  "Spy who came in from the cold" by Tom Parfitt, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2007.

• Nowadays, there are plans to separate the Baltic states from the common power system of the former Soviet Union and to integrate them into the European system. What does it mean for us in practice? In practice, it means that a number of zones will emerge between several regions of the Russian Federation, where we will have no power transmission lines, since previously we used to have a loop transition through the Baltic countries.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Mean, Practice

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

• NATO and the USA wanted a complete victory over the Soviet Union. They wanted to sit on the throne in Europe alone.

  Vladimir Putin

  Europe, Usa, Victory

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations and a permanent member of its Security Council.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Unions, States

  "Interview of President Vladimir V.Putin to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, m.rusemb.org.uk.

• Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian nation, it became a genuine drama. Tens of millions of our co-citizens and co-patriots found themselves outside Russian territory.

  Vladimir Putin

  Drama, Russia, Epidemics

  "Prince Charles is right: Similarites between Putin and Hitler are uncanny" Rep. Trent Franks, www.foxnews.com. May 23, 2014.

• I assume that our colleagues from both the United States and the European Union will proceed from current humanitarian law and ensure political freedoms and rights of all people, including those who are living in the territory of Baltic states after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

  Vladimir Putin

  Law, Rights, People

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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

  Vladimir Putin

  Tragedy, Unions, Century

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

• People in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those that do regret it have no brain.

  Vladimir Putin

  Regret, Heart, Russia

  Interview with German television channel ARD and ZDF, May 2005.

• The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained.

  Vladimir Putin

  Breakup, Tragedy, Unions

• Japan announced that it would not comply with this declaration [ 1956]. Later on, the Soviet Union also declared that the declaration could not be fulfilled unilaterally, by the USSR alone.

  Vladimir Putin

  Japan, Unions, Soviet Union

  Source: www.rt.com

• Back in 1956, we signed a treaty and surprisingly it was ratified both by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and the Japanese Parliament. But then Japan refused to implement it and after that the Soviet Union also, so to say, nullified all the agreements reached within the framework of the treaty.

  Vladimir Putin

  Japan, Agreement, Unions

  Source: thesaker.is

• 25 million of Russian people suddenly turned out to be outside the borders of the Russian Federation. They used to live in one state; the Soviet Union has traditionally been called Russia, the Soviet Russia, and it was the great Russia. Then the Soviet Union suddenly fell apart, in fact, overnight, and it turned out that in the former Soviet Union republics there were 25 million Russians. They used to live in one country and suddenly found themselves abroad. Can you imagine how many problems came out?

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Russia, People

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

• After the demise of the Soviet Union, we had many problems of our own for which no one was responsible but ourselves: the economic downfall, the collapse of the welfare system, the separatism, and of course the terror attacks that shook our country. In this respect, we do not have to look for guilty parties abroad.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Party, Terror Attacks

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• 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.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Political, Foundation

  Interview with TF-1 Television Channel (France), en.kremlin.ru. July 12, 2006.

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