Nikita Khrushchev Quotes

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.

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

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.

In the old days, the Soviets were using space as a selling point for communism.

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 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.

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

We face a hostile ideology [Communism]—global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method.

During my childhood in the Cold War, my family saw America as a great ally in our common struggle to keep back Soviet communism.

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

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

I had studied Russian in college. I had gotten into it first through literature and then just really found it kind of fascinating; of course, this was during the Cold War. So they were kind of the other great enemy that you grew up hearing about.

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

Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years.

Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

We know only too well that Communist desire for domination will not stop at either ocean. We urge firmness now.

Why were the Europeans bothered about the Soviet Union at all? It was nothing to do with us. China had nothing to do with us. Why were we not building, without reference to the Soviet Union, a good society in our own countries? But no, we were all — in one way or another — obsessed with the bloody Soviet Union, which was a disaster…

People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.

The Cold War didn't end. It was won.

The problem is not so much that they are Communists as it is that they are Russians.

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

Those of my generation who grew up in the midst of the Cold War had a very, very strong awareness and very much were sort of influenced by the demonization of the Soviet Union, whether that was through the Cuban Missile Crisis or duck-and-cover, or any of those things that so affected us then.

When historians consider the significance of the Berlin crises of the mid-20th century, I do not believe that they will record it as an incident in the encirclement of freedom. The true view, in my judgment, will be to see it rather as a major episode in the recession of communism.

I wasn't very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.

When communism collapsed in 1989, the big story that had been hardwired into citizens of western countries - that of the global battle against a distant dark and evil force - came to an abrupt end.