Europe Quote by Aldrich Ames

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

— Ken Follett

In light of 50 years of bondage of Eastern Europe, [invading the Soviet Union in 1948 to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons] was…

— Condoleezza Rice

“After fighting for four long years, we were completely surprised by the Soviets’ efforts to absorb Eastern Europe, and their rejection of almost all wartime…

— Victor Davis Hanson

The Soviet experience was much worse than experts in the West had thought. That discovery had a tremendous impact both on the intellectual community…

— Milton Friedman

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play…

— Aldrich Ames

The Western world doesn't really give enough credit to the importance in history of the Soviet invasion and the subsequent war in Afghanistan. For…

— Michael Scheuer

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of…

— Anonymous

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

— Alexander Haig

“If political scientists couldn’t predict the downfall of the Soviet Union—perhaps the most important event in the latter half of the twentieth century—then what…

— Nate Silver

I have argued that the Soviet story is one of the interaction of speculative excess or utopian aspirations with refractory reality.

— Paul Craig Roberts

“I am not arguing that the Soviet Union did not present a threat to the security of the United States. I am arguing that…

— James McCartney

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for…

— Anonymous