“When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt.” SelfRunningUnionsFallenContemptSovietSoviet UnionBrezhnev Author:Leonid Brezhnev
“If the present White House leadership runs the gauntlet of common sense and the people's will for peace and challenges us by starting MX missile deployment, then the Soviet Union will respond by deploying a new intercontinental ballistic missile of the same class, with its characteristics in no way inferior to those of the MX.” PeopleIfsWayRunningHouseChallengesWhiteCommonClassUnionsStartingCommon SenseCharacteristicsWhite HouseSovietInferiorsSoviet UnionMissilesDeploymentGauntletDeploying Author:Dmitriy Ustinov