America Quote by Joe Weisberg

There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.

— Natan Sharansky

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

We had a world dominated by the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the Americans on the other hand. They called it the…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

During the Cold War era, the issue was the containment of Soviet influence, and we tolerated many an authoritarian regime as long as they…

— Zalmay Khalilzad

In Georgia, people had already understood that communism couldn't survive, and I came to the institute in Moscow, and people still believed in it.…

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face of surrounding…

— Joseph Stalin

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

I met many Russians over the years who were convinced my brothers and I were a cabal, pulling strings behind the scenes to shape…

— David Rockefeller

My grandfather was an American Communist, and he married my grandmother, who was a Russian Communist. During the 1950s, the McCarthy era, my family…

— Bill Browder

It was not Soviet people who formed the American Communist Party.

— J. Stalin

As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great…

— Alexander Haig

From our perspective now, there is a not a huge understanding about the totalitarian Communism that Soviet Russia practiced during the 1950s - it…

— Jay Roach