Brian Gongol
"In 1980 the defeat of the Big Red Machine (as the Soviet hockey team was nicknamed in the West) by a collection of young American amateurs at the Olympics in Lake Placid was seen as a stinging loss for communism and a victory for capitalism and democracy. That was the zero-sum nature of the relationship between East and West. Gorbachev rejected that view." - Condoleezza Rice
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