Athlete Quote by Ralph Boston

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

“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

“In the last days before the attack a strange feeling, not so much of confidence as of fatalism, pervaded the German tank forces- if…

— Alan Clark

The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way.

— Bobby Fischer

It would be easier to fight the Russian army, and it would give me great satisfaction, but I have a responsibility to my people

— Aslan Maskhadov

Russians understand strength, and if they feel that their opponents are weak, they will take advantage of it.

— Leon Panetta

“In fact, among the people I met, the term soviet served essentially as a synonym for 'fucked up'. I'd been in the country about…

— Anthony DeCurtis

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

If someone gave the Russians a football, they'd win the Super Bowl in two years.

— Frank Mahovlich

I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying…

— Ralph Boston

The Soviet Union's propaganda clearly wishes to use public opinion in this country to get the West to reduce its own arms while doing…

— James Callaghan

In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented…

— Pal Benko