Dangerous Quote by Jeane Kirkpatrick

I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after…

— Fidel Castro

Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

When the Soviet Union was dissolved, most of us didn't even have the feeling that the country was falling apart. We thought we would…

— Vladislav Surkov

The Cold War was obviously driven by a very intense ideological struggle that was very clearly defined.

— Fiona Hill

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

Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment.

— Chris Christie

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

— Jane Smiley

Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“Soviet leaders had to treat the outside world as hostile because this provided the only excuse “for the dictatorship without which they did not…

— John Lewis Gaddis

“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

At the end of the Cold War, the prevailing view in Washington was that the U.S. was strong, and Russia was weak and did…

— Bill Bradley