Being Quote by Jane Smiley

The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we…

— Joseph Rotblat

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to…

— Kary Mullis

With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force…

— Gunther Blumentritt

All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But…

— Leo Tolstoy

When the USSR collapsed, I was 11, and unlike many people, I don't miss it.

— Margarita Simonyan

As a boy I stood at the doorway of our hiding place in Budapest and watched Russian troops fight house by house to liberate…

— Frank Lowy

[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same…

— Bob Dylan

I remember being in fights and being tremendously outnumbered and it escalating into something much worse. That's why I laughed when people asked if…

— Anthony Yarde

Communism destroyed so many generations. I look at my grandparents and their generation, and it's as if their lives were taken from them. It's…

— Anton Yelchin

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots of bombs…

— Alice Walker

I remember very vividly, as a child growing up in England, living through the Cuban Missile Crisis. For a few days, the entire biosphere…

— David Christian

I'm a child of the Cold War. You do not say, "Oh, my God, there are Russian planes, so I'm going to cede the…

— Anne-Marie Slaughter