Ambivalence Quote by Roger Nash Baldwin

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned…

— Arthur Koestler

I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.

— Elia Kazan

When the Soviet Union was dissolved, most of us didn't even have the feeling that the country was falling apart. We thought we would…

— Vladislav Surkov

It cannot be so very surprising that I adopted a Communist viewpoint in the 1930s; so many of my contemporaries made the same choice.…

— Kim Philby

At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

When I used to theorize about a nuclear standoff, I didn't really have to understand what was happening inside the Soviet Union. It is…

— Thomas Schelling

Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.

— George Galloway

I didn't believe that the Soviet Union would ever break down.

— Olga Tokarczuk

By the time I got to college, the Cold War was basically over.

— Elif Batuman

I remember when the Cold War ended, how quickly the United States was swept by a nationalistic fervor and turned against Saddam Hussein. As…

— Connie Zweig

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

The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.

— Neil Sheehan