"Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship."
— George F. Kennan

January 1, 1970

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People from MilwaukeeDiplomats of the United StatesUnited States Ambassadors to Russia and the Soviet UnionUnited States Department of State Directors of Policy PlanningUnited States Ambassadors to Yugoslavia
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On postwar accords regarding Eastern Europe, as quoted in The Wise Men (1986) by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas