Soviet Aficionado Gifts

"He used to be as hopeful as Mikhail Gorbachev."

"Where is everyone?" "You had 'everyone' killed." "Stalin family reunion"

Harry S. Truman

'You can come down a peg. Mesopotamia gave the world bureaucracy, you know.'

Ivan Turgenev

Vote Progressive: 'It's not the rich, it's people trying to get rich who create new jobs!'

Michael Caine

"It's General Douglas MacArthur."

Nikolay Rerih

Glasnost

"Ya know, dad...I get to pretend I'm a superhero because of real heroes like you."

Otto von Bismarck

Old cold warriors home: 'By god, I'll tell you who was soft on communism. . .'

I think the best thing about this whole Russia stuff is the movies. Interesting hypothesis. Think about it: the best action movies we ever had were the cold war ones, like "Wargames," "The Manchurian Candidate," "The Day After," etc

'I was 'Sweatin' To The Oldies', and I flipped over on my back!'

Alexei Kosygin

"I should now like to make a few anti-Soviet remarks."

"Henry took a shower yesterday right next to Winthrop Rockefeller."

Army Man Playset 2020

Gorbachev Changed the World

"What do you suppose Ken Burns will have to say about all this in 30 years?"

'A lot of successful politicians opposed the Vietnam war, Senator, but if you were actually a MEMBER of the Viet Cong....'

'I never rule out any negotiating tool!'

'I'll be talking gibberish to you in a moment. There's a big tip in it for you, if you pretend I'm speaking French.'

'Mess with me if you have to, son, but not with the regimental moustache!'

Grocer with pretensions of being a soldier

"I don't see this as a rejection of all thing French."

'But this IS my mobile home!'

First Stealth Aircraft.

'Not another war film.'

The state of dread induced by the threat of nuclear war during the Cold War

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

'It's a military tattoo!'

Napoleon 'Snuffed Out' by the Russians

Trilby - 'I will not! I will not!'