Comp of quotes on trading with the enemy
This truck was built by Kamaz on the Kama River, which was the single largest truck plant in the world when it was built in the 1970s by American firms.
"A festering quarrel within the Department of Commerce over an old and seemingly innocuous decision to export truck technology to the Soviet Union is exciting renewed debate about the adequacy of safeguards against Russian military gain from civilian trade with the united states…it is clear though that those who opposed such trade in the past are delighted to have a new hook on which to lay their claims, even as tiny a hook as the Kama River truck plant"
~R Jeffrey Smith, former senior editor of Science, won a Pullitzer Prize for journalism
"...they [The USSR] reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat, in order to attain that, and that is moral, not immoral, and we operate on a different set of standards, I think when you do business with them, even at a detente, you keep that in mind. "
Not exactly in support of the USSR. Though Reagan could had ended this statement with "and that is why we wont be doing business with them." Reagan could had signed an executive order at any time of his presidency to cut off trade. Instead, he rambled on about the evil empire and never did it. Fag.
"We have offered to the Socialist countries only standard commercial computers, and these offerings have been in full compliance with the export control and administrative directives of the Department of Commerce.
The statement regarding a proposed sale of the CYBER computer is thoroughly confused. CYBER is a generic name denoting a line of computers. The least powerful model is the Control Data 6200 which is installed at the Dubna Nuclear Research facility near Moscow. Another is the CYBER 76 which is the most powerful and appears to be the model Mr. Schemmer is referencing. At the appropriate time** we will seek advisory opinions and submit to the government export license requests** for approval for applications in such areas as weather forecasting, simulation in the Worldwide Weather Watch Program, in econometric modeling and in education."
William C Norris, Chairman of the Control Data Corporation, in a letter to congressman Richard T Hanna, 1973
In a debate at a Missouri high school with John A Stormer, author of the 7 million seller None Dare Call it Treason
"I'll tell you where we were 20 years ago -- we were at war -- war -- war! Now we have peace -- peace -- peace!"
Harlan Cleveland, Assistant Secretary of State, early 1964, before the majority of American deaths in Vietnam
"This system of keeping certain nations dependent on others economically must disappear. It is going to disappear. I have long been convinced that we shall never be able to build a balanced economic order in the world until every people has become as self supporting as possible."
Henry Ford when asked by Nation's Business why he agreed to build the largest auto factory in the world in Soviet Russia in 1928
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