Accepted Quote by Annie Jacobsen

The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.

— Joost Meerloo

World War II provides a string of celebrated cases of deception and manipulation.

— David Ignatius

The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom; to rig…

— John le Carre

“Illusions may flatter us, confuse us, or betray us, Drakkonwehr. Or they may be images we cling to when the truth is too difficult…

— Helen C. Johannes

People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

My hypothesis is that for people who are both trained and inclined to think in rigorously logical ways, it is particularly difficult to adapt…

— Masha Gessen

The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of that Cold…

— Robert Conquest

"World War III, was the Cold War".

— R. James Woolsey, Jr

The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.

— Leon Trotsky

It is sometimes said that one of the casualties of the general suspicion and mistrust that permeated the old Soviet Union was that the…

— Simon Blackburn

In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their…

— Raymond Pettibon

My goal was to show the history of the end of the Cold War through both sides - the U.S. side and the Soviet…

— David E. Hoffman