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There was no testimony of conspiracy - Oswald's efforts to get in touch with the Soviets and with the Cuban Fair Play groups in New York were rebuffed, rebuffed at every step.


John Sherman Cooper


#cuban #efforts #every #every step #fair

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


Herman Kahn


#changing #counterproductive #especially #freeze #important

To call something an 'enhanced interrogation technique' doesn't alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it. You know, it's almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique.


Ted Koppel


#alter #american #call #enhanced #equivalent

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.


Slavoj Zizek


#been #bit #blessing #democratic #disguise

Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.


Barbara Amiel


#conquered #control #dependent #energy #europe

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.


Abu Bakar Bashir


#defeated #did #faith #like #sophisticated

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.


Kit Bond


#cold #cold war #day #end #fear

I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.


Edward Teller


#contributed #defeat #enormous #i #i tried

Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.


Dan Rather


#democracy #despite #many #most #soviets

In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente.


Jeane Kirkpatrick


#arms #before #both #carter #control






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