"The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side."
Zbigniew Brzezinski was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist who served as U.S. national security adviser under President Jimmy Carter. He was a major strategist of late-Cold War U.S. foreign policy.