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“There has been much controversy about the numbers of those imprisoned and killed at various times in the Stalin years, but the opening of…

— Archie Brown

“It is a fact that fewer than 10 percent of Germany’s population of 79.7 million people actively worked or campaigned to bring about Hitler’s…

— Andy Andrews

I believe that when [senator Ron] Wyden and [senator Mark] Udall asked about the scale of this, they [the NSA] said it did not…

— Edward Snowden

“The Nazi and Soviet regimes turned people into numbers, some of which we can only estimate, some of which we can reconstruct with fair…

— Timothy Snyder

Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the…

— Aldrich Ames

“Included in the Totalitarian/Killed by Own Government cell are the 10 to 12 million human beings killed by the German National Socialists in the…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“In the Great Terror in the Soviet Union, NKVD officers recorded 682,691 executions of supposed enemies of the state, most of them peasants or…

— Timothy Snyder

A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same.…

— Etty Hillesum

“According to Roy Medvedev, Stalin’s victims numbered forty million. Solzhenitsyn says the number is far greater—perhaps sixty million. The debate continues even now.”

— David Remnick

“Neighbors turned surly; petty jealousies flared into denunciations made to the SA—the Storm Troopers—or to the newly founded Geheime Staatspolizei, only just becoming known…

— Erik Larson

“Some writings spotted U.S. history said that the CIA agents who were watching the Communists, in the period after the Second World War, more…

— Mohamed Addakhakhny

The American Communist Party was notoriously infiltrated by informers, some working for the FBI, some for capitalist employers. At one time it used to…

— Helen Lawrenson