Scott Shane Quotes

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.

I never wanted to be a Cold War novelist.

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.

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

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.

I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

What did in the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union.

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

After the turmoil of the Second World War, my family ended up in Russian-occupied East Germany. When I attended fourth grade, I had to learn Russian as my first foreign language in school. I found this quite difficult because of the Cyrillic alphabet, but as time went on, I seemed to do all right.

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West.

I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.

Looking back as an historian, I find myself having great respect for Ronald Reagan's consistency: his absolute conviction that the Soviet Union - the only competing world empire at the time - was bound to collapse!

Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

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

People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.

Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.