Barbara Amiel Quotes

Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.

There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence.

The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.

The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.

There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.

At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death.

Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.

At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people.

Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.

There is no hope for any nation or group that allows itself to be drawn into the orbit of international communism.

The Russian entry will prevent the Nazi domination of Europe… I do not think that there is any danger of Russian domination of Europe.

The culture and values of many former Soviet republics really do differ from what prevails in the West.

Russia is an important power upon which the U.S.A. imposed a Cold War.

Too many countries of the former Soviet bloc remain under the control of authoritarian leaders, including some, like the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, who have learned how to maintain a more convincing facade of elections than their communist predecessors.

The connection between the Soviet Union and Czech people - or Czech politicians - was very big. It was like a model country for us. But it wasn't the best model, so a lot of Czechs don't like to speak about Russia or the Soviet Union.

Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.

Britain is relatively compact and much closer to the borders of the U.S.S.R. than anywhere in North America.

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

Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.

And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous.