Richard Pipes

“After Pipes first visited the Soviet Union, in 1957, he wrote a colleague:”

“I found it difficult to suppress the tears as I viewed about me the effects of 40 years of Soviet rule which had exacted such suffering from the population.”

“Pipes, in his 1999 book Property and Freedom, writes,”

“Pipes led a "Team B" analysis in 1976 devoted to Soviet motivation”

“and eventually summarized in a 1977 Commentary article, "Why the Soviet Union Thinks It Could Fight and Win a Nuclear War."”

“He also served on the National Security Council staff in 1981 and '82”

“drafting National Security Decision Directive 75 on "U.S. Relations with the USSR."”

“The lunch he organized for President Reagan on May 11, 1982, with critics of the Soviet regime...”

“After Pipes first visited the Soviet Union, in 1957, he wrote a colleague: "All the buildings on the streets were in a state of disrepair, the gateways crumbling, the façades patched up, the courtyar…”

“Pipes, in his 1999 book Property and Freedom, writes, "In the Jewish legal tradition, wealth honestly acquired was considered a blessing: the rabbis forbade people to give away their wealth, or to en…”

“on a single day … sent death sentences for 5,000 people who had never been tried after which he went to his private Kremlin movie theater to enjoy two films, one of them a comedy called Merry Fellows.”