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Back in the era when we were dealing with the Soviets, we had a lot greater understanding of how they were going to move and when they were going to move and the conditions.

Christopher Jackson
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I have read about the concerns of dealing with Russia, but if you visit Moscow you see that Russia will never go back to the old way of the Soviets.

George Schultz
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We must be prepared to stay at the negotiating table one day longer than the Soviets.

Max M. Kampelman
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If you fight opponents who are weaker than yourself for any length, then you will find yourself disintegrating. It happened to the French in Algeria. It happened to the Americans in Vietnam. It happened to the Soviets in Afghanistan, and now it's happening to us.

Martin Von Creveld
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It was at this time, ... that Groves mentioned that the real purpose in making the bomb was to subdue the Soviets. I was terribly shocked.

Joseph Rotblat
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The insurgents are thinking in terms of years. It took 10 years in Afghanistan to evict the Soviets. We're thinking in terms of months, and that causes problems.

Jack Reed
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The question was asked, 'What can seven divisions do to stop a Soviet attack? ... And the answer very explicitly was: They can guarantee that if the Soviets attack and kill or capture 300,000 Americans, the war won't end there.

Thomas Schelling
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She always wanted us to be in communication with each other, ... She never forgot that the (Soviets) shipped a very large percentage of the Estonian population — including her family members — to the Gulag (forced work camps).

Robert Nolan
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If the German people lay down their weapons, the Soviets, according to the agreement between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, would occupy all of East and Southeast Europe along with the greater part of the Reich. An iron curtain would fall over this enormous territory controlled by the Soviet Union, behind which nations would be slaughtered.

Joseph Goebbels
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If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others - that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case.

Dick Durbin
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In retrospect, I emotionally understand where Morgenthau is coming from, and I admire him for it. At the same time, Morgenthau's plan was too vindictive. In retrospect, if it had been instituted ... it would have left a vacuum for the Soviets.

Michael Beschloss
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There is no doubt that the Soviets stored material in this country. The question is what and where.

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

Edward Teller
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Six months after we concluded our negotiations with the Swiss, the Soviets disclose records showing there is much more Nazi gold in Switzerland.

Elan Steinberg
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