“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
We're invited to believe that the worst effects of Stalinism arose from its 'dogmatic' intransigence; but it is precisely because so much… — Mark Fisher 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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 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
“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'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 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
“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
“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
“Somewhere nearby, artillery thundered. Vast fields — flat as a table, without a single tree — turned any moving figure into an… — Anonymous 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
“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
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
