Country Quote by Zbigniew Brzezinski

And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet…

— Samuel P. Huntington

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

— Barbara Amiel

[Russians would like to] undermine the West and its institutions, create doubts about NATO, create doubts about the European Union, support nationalists on the…

— Daniel Fried

Now that we are used to globalisation it's hard to imagine a time when the countries behind the iron curtain were largely obscured from…

— Mark Fisher

More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this…

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration.... The United States does notconcede that those…

— Gerald R. Ford

The West has not lived through totalitarianism, with a single ideology for 70 years.We are escaping from the burden of the past, and onlyafter…

— Boris Yeltsin

“After fighting for four long years, we were completely surprised by the Soviets’ efforts to absorb Eastern Europe, and their rejection of almost all wartime…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all…

— Barbara Amiel

We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into…

— Boris Yeltsin

As for the eastern part of the former Soviet Union, the picture is rather uniform. Authoritarian structures prevail to differing extents. But we can…

— Garry Kasparov

The Eastern Europeans invested too many of their hopes in the notion that somehow or other the missile shield, even if directed at Iran,…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski