Quips and Quotations (Yesterday's Geopolitics Edition)

 

1931-2022

We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.

--Mikhail Gorbachev

This Day in History

On March 5, 1953, Joseph Stalin, the 74-year old leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics--hmm...You know what? 

I think I'll let Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Herbert Block tell you just what happened that day: