Leonid Brezhnev Quotes About Detente
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We are entirely for the idea that Europe shall be free from nuclear weapons, from medium-range weapons as well as tactical weapons. That would be a real zero option.
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Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.
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I shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerging a victor from it. No matter what the attacker might possess, no matter what method of unleashing nuclear war he chooses, he will not attain his aims. Retribution will inevitably ensue.
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It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.
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Leonid Brezhnev
- Born: December 19, 1906
- Died: November 10, 1982
- Occupation: Former General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union