#soviet

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for a long time, as a matter of fact for centuries, fundamental Russian policies in respect to the rest of the world. ↗

— David Bruce

#been #believing #centuries #fact #fundamental

In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces. ↗

— Alexander Dubcek

#committee #control #first #forces #me

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. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#became #began #both #carry #cold

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then. ↗

— Ken Follett

#domination #had #hindsight #know #never

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#cutting #driving #heads #into #must

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#people #soviet #unconditional #want

During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline. ↗

— Bob Graham

#cold #cold war #decline #during #gathered

And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions? ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#big question #bloc #countries #course #europeans

I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#believe #build-up #contest #detente #effect

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom. ↗

— Rose Wilder Lane

#believed #came #communist #freedom #i