Russian Aggression Quotes

“What frightens me is that when a country begins to extend its influence by strong arm methods beyond its borders under the guise of security it is difficult to see how a line can be drawn.
If the policy is accepted that [Russia] has a right to penetrate her immediate neighbors . . . penetration of the next immediate neighbors becomes at a certain time equally logical.

[W. Averell Harriman, US Ambassador to USSR, Sept 20, 1944]”
― George C. Herring, Aid to Russia, 1941-1946;: Strategy, diplomacy, the origins of the cold war

“If aggression pays off, aggressors will take note.
-- Kaja Kallas, Estonia Prime Minister”
― Kaja Kallas

“It should by now be clear to Americans that any Power, whether Napoleonic France or Hitlerian Germany or some other madly ambitious power of the future, which goes on the warpath in Europe and attempts to dominate that Continent, automatically endangers the peace and security of the rest of the world and is sure, sooner or later, to involve the United States in a horribly costly overseas conflict.”
― Carlton J.H. Hayes, Wartime Mission In Spain 1942-1945

“It would be a measureless disaster if Russian barbarism overlaid the culture and independence of the ancient states of Europe.

[Winston Churchill, October 1942]”
― Fraser J. Harbutt, The Iron Curtain: Churchill, America, and the Origins of the Cold War