Capability Quote by Alexander Haig

Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.

— Dan Rather

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

We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.

— Heinz Guderian

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

— Ken Follett

The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists, and Afghan…

— David Frum

What Americans cant face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold…

— Robert D. Kaplan

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 West's main weakness remains unchanged: it cannot grasp the fact that it is facing an acceleration in the unfolding of Soviet convergence strategy…

— Anatoliy Golitsyn

Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.

— Ivan Krastev

You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really nasty guys,…

— Hillary Clinton

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