I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.
In the Cold War, a lot of Soviet actions could be explained as extensions of Czarist imperial ambitions, but that didn't stop us from studying Marxism in theory and Communism in practice to better understand that adversary.
I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous.
In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.
My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.
With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.
I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.