#russians

The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#been #effort #had #i #justified

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian. ↗

— George F. Kennan

#let us #russian #russians #thing #us

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution. ↗

— Anwar Sadat

#arms #give #only #russians #solution

I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#between #british #british actors #choose #decide

The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#end #occupied #russians #second #second world war

Truth and justice are commonly found in the personality of the paranoid delusional ↗

— Russian

#mental-health #russians #truth #ussr #mental-health

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education. ↗

— Paul Erdos

#destroy #education #invented #russians #something

So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it. ↗

— Ralph Boston

#anything #athletes #beat #big #big issue

We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#intervene #knowingly #probability #push #russians

Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#edge #over #probably #pushed #realized