Also Quote by Stephen Cohen

To be sure, no one will miss such by-products of the Cold War as the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.

— John Mearsheimer

The role of Ronald Reagan had been deliberately diminished; the role of the Europeans, who, with the exception of Helmet Kohl, were often keen…

— Margaret Thatcher

The fact is that Americans were sent to Russia that have not been returned.

— Bo Gritz

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

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

— Vladimir Putin

If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

— Walter Lippmann

Reagan's defense buildup and SDI, so ridiculed at the time, pressed Gorbachev, while his economy was collapsing, to make arms deals and improve relations…

— Michael Beschloss

Although the United States lost a quarter of a million men and women, civilians and soldiers, in World War II, that's considerably less than…

— Tony Judt

The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and…

— Stephen Cohen

I disapproved of the fact that the government here refused to adopt the few reforms that Gorbachev put over in the field of media…

— Stefan Heym

Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after…

— Fidel Castro

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

— David Remnick