[Sherman Logan]

I think we should all be thankful for both Gorby and Boris.

In 1982 if anyone would have predicted that the USSR would disappear without major bloodshed, he would have been laughed out of town.

I believe we sometimes forget how lucky the world was that the disintegration of a major nuclear power occurred without those weapons being used.

[Verginius Rufus]

I took a look once at Richard Nixon's book entitled 1999. I think it was written in 1988--three years before the collapse of the USSR. He takes it for granted that the Soviet Union would still be in existence in 1999.