>> people today don't realize how serious the cold war threat really was. i don't think that it is an exaggeration that our survival was at stake. they were antithetical to all of the values that we held as a country. we were democracy. they were totalitarianism. we were faith. they were atheism. so it was a real battle. it was often what we called a manichean struggle between good and evil. >> let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the state and declare omnipotence the over man and the prediction of the domination over all peoples on the earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world. >> ronald reagan called them the evil empire, and i don't believe it was too farfetched.