“What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy? Where is your decency? Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle?”
Golda Meir
“Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.”
Joseph Stalin
“If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.”
Carlos Fuentes
“I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.”
Lee Harvey Oswald
“What we asked for were weapons so that we could defend ourselves -- that's what we asked of the Soviet Union, of the socialist countries of Eastern Europe, of the Algerians, of the Vietnamese; and that's what we received so that we could arm the Nicaraguan people and defend ourselves in that war imposed on us by Ronald Reagan's Administration over a number of years.”
Daniel Ortega
“She tells me everything I know about the Soviet Union.”
Mikhail Gorbachev
“Gorbachev was literally hated in the 1990s. He was seen as the destroyer of the Soviet Union, the destroyer of everything that generations and generations had built. But much of that was fueled in the '90s, as it played into the hands of Boris Yeltsin, his successor in government.”
Alexander Rahr
