“You put your back into the work. For unless you could manage to provide yourself with the means of warming up, you… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Shukhov had figured it all out. If he didn't sign he'd be shot. If he signed he'd still get a chance to… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn 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
“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
“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
For me, Stalinism was even a greater philosophical problem than Nazism. Under Nazism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“And it was not merely tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of millions of people who were the obedient… — Vasily Grossman 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
“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
“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
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
“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind… — Amadeo Bordiga Copy Share Image
“The days rolled by in the camp—they were over before you could say "knife." But the years, they never rolled by; they… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“But I had begun to sense a truth inside myself: if in order to live it is necessary not to live, then… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Stalinism - or communism - is the only ideology Americans know how to demonise... no one knows what it is, it's just… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things -- they always do. It's that good people do… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Again, it is belief without evidence. In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of. Quick: try to think of a single movie about the horrors of Stalinism. This… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
“But you know, a wizard with black hair and a thick mustache put a curse on Moscow, and Petrograd, too, so that… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Somewhere nearby, artillery thundered. Vast fields — flat as a table, without a single tree — turned any moving figure into an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image