Acceptance Quote by George C. Marshall

Time and time again, the obstinate refusal of the tsarist regime to concede reforms turned what should have been a political problem into a…

— Orlando Figes

Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in…

— W. Averell Harriman

The clash between the aspirations of the people for a better life and the insistence of their rulers on building a powerful state, regardless…

— Harrison Salisbury

The history in our country speaks to our highest values of people who did not accept things as they are and go along with…

— Cory Booker

“There are at the present time two great nations in the world, which started from different points, but seem to tend towards the same…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian…

— Vladimir Putin

Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian…

— Vladimir Putin

To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

That civilisation may not sink, Its great battle lost,

— William Butler Yeats

There is also this great sense of triumphalism, that just as we defeated the Soviet Union, we can do this. And out of this…

— Edward Said

As awful as the crimes of Stalinism were, the vast majority of the Russian population was trying to survive, to love, to have a…

— Amor Towles