“...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything . For a person you've taken everything from is… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It was astonishing that the pseudo wreckers, who knew perfectly well that they weren't wreckers, believed that military men and priests were… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“If your case, as a politically repressed person, is reviewed by the Special Council, you are almost guaranteed the standard sentence: ten… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days. The three extra days were for leap years.” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Should we wrap it all up and simply say that they arrested the innocent? But we omitted saying that the very concept… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“He who does not cry out the truth when he knows the truth becomes the accomplice of the liars and falsifiers.” — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation?… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's not the possibility of Stalinism in the U.S. that's worrying me, it's the fact that the Stalinist C.P. seems doomed to… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“Such impulses have displayed themselves very widely across left and liberal opinion in recent months. Why? For some, because what the US… — Norman Geras Copy Share Image
“To outsmart you they thought up work squads—but not squads like the ones outside the camps, where everyone is paid his separate… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Americans need to understand that they have lost their country. The rest of the world needs to recognize that Washington is not… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
“In addition, of course, they would be taken to a bath and in the bath vestibule they would be ordered to leave… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for having done something. They imprisoned and executed… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The hide was being flayed off the still living body of the Revolution so that a new age could slip in to… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
“You don't have to be very bright to carry a handbarrow. So the squad leader gave such work to people who'd been… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“What people still do not like to admit is that there were two crimes in the form of one. Just as the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
