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Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

— Ray Bradbury

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.

— Ian Frazier

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.

— Ken Follett

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

— Marine Le Pen

If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.

— James Lovelock

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

— Noam Chomsky

Just five years before that the Russians were our allies.

— Martin Landau

At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death.

— Klaus Fuchs

Everyone in my country understands that Russia cannot do without Europe and that, vice versa, Europe cannot do without Russia. We depend on cooperation.

— Valentina Matviyenko

✗Opposing Perspectives

The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.

— Kelly Miller

It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.

— James Forrestal