Against Quote by Lyndon LaRouche

When I joined the Army in the late '70s, there was a real threat from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, so all of…

— Dick Strawbridge

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

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

— Aldrich Ames

My 40 years in the foreign service and the careers of many of my friends became associated with the fall of the Soviet Empire…

— Daniel Fried

I joined the CIA in 1985 as an operations officer in the Clandestine Service.

— Gina Haspel

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

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

Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the…

— Aldrich Ames

“[I]n the interests of our common tasks, we must sometimes overlook their stupidities,” one Soviet official explained in 1973.”

— John Lewis Gaddis

In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything...…

— Alexander Dubcek

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

— Kevin J. Anderson

By the 1970s, Western sanctions had hollowed out the Soviet economy. Ultimately, however, what brought down the Soviets was their inability to repair the…

— Erin O'Toole