“Freedom meant one thing to him—home. But they wouldn't let him go home.” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In Stalinism, everybody was potentially a victim in a totally contingent way. — Slavoj Žižek 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
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again. — Lionel Blue 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
“Here a man can live. All right, it's a 'special' camp. So what? Does it bother you to wear a number? They… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn 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
“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
Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
In the post-Soviet era, the most interesting work on the Stalinist period has been social history, far beyond the Kremlin walls -… — Keith Gessen 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
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
Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“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
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
“Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people… — Slavoj Žižek 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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 thoughts of a prisoner—they're not free either. They kept returning to the same things. A single idea keeps stirring. Would they… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn 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
“Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more brave, one might… — Christopher Hitchens 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
“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
“So, whenever the subject of Iraq came up, as it did keep on doing through the Clinton years, I had no excuse… — Christopher Hitchens 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
“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
“The idealized market was supposed to deliver ‘friction free’ exchanges, in which the desires of consumers would be met directly, without the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“Some lurid things have been said about me—that I am a racist, a hopeless alcoholic, a closet homosexual and so forth—that I… — Christopher Hitchens 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
In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
As awful as the crimes of Stalinism were, the vast majority of the Russian population was trying to survive, to love, to… — Amor Towles 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
![“Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great." [ Six Questions for Slavoj Žižek , Harper's Magazine, November 11, 2011]” quote by Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9e/slavoj-i-ek-1738_bad-people_because-the-horror-of-communism-stalinis_1900927.jpg)
