[The accords were] fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. -George F. Kennan

 

[The accords were] fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.


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The general effect of Cold War extremism was to delay rather than hasten the great change that overtook the Soviet Union.

George F. Kennan

The best [an American] can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.

George F. Kennan

I shall always remember you-slyly, touchingly, but with great shouting and confusion-pumping hot water into our sleeping car in the frosty darkness of a December morning in order that we might not know, in order that we might never realize, to how primitive a land we had come.

George F. Kennan

We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.

George F. Kennan

Russia, Russia-unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit.

George F. Kennan