Complication Quote by Thomas Schelling

[2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this has been…

— Steven Knight

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

— Olga Tokarczuk

The Soviet Union was, by the 1970s and 1980s, relatively stable and predictable. Putin's Russia is much more volatile. Nuclear policy is really in…

— Anne Applebaum

What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation with Communists…

— Roger Nash Baldwin

In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.

— Henry A. Kissinger

“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

The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of…

— Joseph Rotblat

But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate…

— David Kay

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of…

— Anonymous

A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.

— Herman Kahn

Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive…

— John Kenneth Galbraith