“We Communists have got to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology. But we are going to continue massive military programs... (soon) we will be in a position to return to a much more aggressive foreign policy designed to gain the upper-hand...”

—  Leonid Brezhnev

as quoted in Kissinger: The Secret Side of the Secretary of State (1976) by Gary Allen

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