Community Quote by Milton Friedman

“If political scientists couldn’t predict the downfall of the Soviet Union—perhaps the most important event in the latter half of the twentieth century—then what…

— Nate Silver

During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to…

— Bob Graham

“As is now generally admitted, a Soviet bomb would not have been achieved for several years more but for the success of Soviet espionage…

— Robert Conquest

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

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most…

— Richard Perle

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

— Alexander Haig

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

I think that right now the West understands Russia better than before and feels a much greater wariness toward it. I think that, if…

— Vladimir Voinovich

My hypothesis is that for people who are both trained and inclined to think in rigorously logical ways, it is particularly difficult to adapt…

— Masha Gessen

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet…

— Aldrich Ames

Whatever the drawbacks and failures I am convinced that in years to come humanity will look back to Soviet achievements as a source of…

— Ronnie Kasrils

I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and…

— Vladimir Putin