Anthony Horowitz Quotes

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

My life changed completely in 1989 with the fall of the wall.

I graduated in 1989, and I'd focused almost entirely on the Soviet Union and communism ... so when the Berlin wall fell, I was, well, I was screwed.

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.

The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever.

There is an iron curtain across Europe.

The Cold War is Over

Certainly my parents were very political, so the whole Berlin Wall thing - and being a kid of the '80s - that's just something that's in your experience.

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during the Cold War.

I was 14 when the wall came down, so I only ever knew about the GDR or experienced it as a kid. I lived very far away from it, and you only ever thought about the GDR when you saw the Olympics, because you were like, "How are they always winning?!"

The fall of the Berlin Wall really demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a bad system, and what subsequently happened in the Soviet Union, that that system was a failure.

Of course, I know everything that happens in Russia. But even at the most dangerous moment or the most negative moment now, it's still 10 times better than what it was in the communist state.

Where were they when the Russians went down?

Reagan was a pure liberation, free-and-fair election American.

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

Only enemies of the Soviet Union can think of the KGB as some kind of secret police.

There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, and there never will be under a Ford administration.

The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.

Today on the NATO line, our military forces face east to prevent a possible invasion. On the other side of the line, the Soviet forces also face east to prevent their people from leaving.

Putin regards Stalin as a great tsar; he is a great tsar. Asked who the worst tsars were, he said Nicholas II and Gorbachev.

North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989.

When you think of the Cold War, there are various places where you imagine espionage. Espionage crossroads of the Cold War bring you to the backstreets of Berlin, or Vienna.

When I was young, I always wanted to go to Russia.