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“The Cold War could have produced a hot war that might have ended human life on the planet. But because the fear of such…

— John Lewis Gaddis

“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

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

The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some sort of…

— George Clooney

If you read history, right, if you read [Mikhail] Gorbachev's memoirs, Gorbachev memoirs said the key thing in winning the Cold War was our…

— Rudy Giuliani

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

— Ken Follett

My 40 years in the foreign service and the careers of many of my friends became associated with the fall of the Soviet Empire…

— Daniel Fried

Now that the Cold War is over with, it's kind of hard to take the Soviet Union seriously. We won, period. We ran them…

— John Mearsheimer

During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We…

— Fareed Zakaria

At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight…

— Klaus Fuchs

“We often like to think of World War II as a triumph of freedom over totalitarianism. We conveniently forget that the Soviet Union was…

— Paul Graham