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> [The book that really, really shaped my politics and has forever is Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon," which is a novel based on terrible fact about what it was like in Russia during Stalin's time when people actually believed that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nat-hentoff/the-book-that-really-really-shaped-my-politics-and-has-forever-is/)

[Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nat-hentoff/)

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> [“In Russia, Stalin ordered Soviet scientists to prove that communism creates unselfish people, a trait which then could be inherited over generations until a perfect society existed. It was a crackpot idea, but many scientists spewed the party line while…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/in-russia-stalin-ordered-soviet-scientists-to-prove-that-communism/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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