Compromise Quote by John Foster Dulles

I just don't see this old idea of the Red peril, itching to take over the world. I think you can explain a lot…

— John Anderson

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

“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

Stalin’s postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.

— John Lewis Gaddis

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

We think that without cooperation with the Russians, we cannot achieve our goals.

— Viktor Orban

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

The organizing principle of the United States defensive foreign policy had been opposition to the Soviet Union. There is no more Soviet Union.

— Mark Shields

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for…

— Anonymous

“indeed Soviet officials frequently complained about the “dependent” habits of Homo Sovieticus, his lack of initiative, and his stubborn expectation”

— Sheila Fitzpatrick

The Soviets are not just looking at Moscow, they have a very extensive program of not only research, development, they have built this radar…

— Fred Ikle

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

— Ken Follett