Cold Quote by Kevin J. Anderson

When I was 18 and was studying in university, Vladimir Putin became president of Russia.

— Ksenia Sobchak

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

— Justin Cronin

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

My parents and my brother and I left the Soviet Union in 1981. I was six, and Dima was sixteen, and that made all…

— Keith Gessen

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

— Daniel Silva

I remember starting to read about the Soviet Union when I was eight years old; I think I was reading my father's 'New York…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in…

— Maria Sharapova

For years before my Navy enlistment, I had studied the Soviet Union and the KGB's history of political intrigue in preparation for a career…

— Malcolm Nance

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

— Lennart Meri

When I was 5-years-old, I knew who Khrushchev was.

— Bill Maher

There's the hypothesis that things just keep happening to Russians, things that keep turning them into the same kind of subjects, as opposed to…

— Masha Gessen