Gulag Quote by David Priestland

“For example, new EU member Poland survived the communist era without collectivizing its small family farms. But now that they’ve joined the EU, collectivization…

— Rick Steves

“Collectivization, when completed, brought starvation to much of the Soviet peasantry. Millions of people in Soviet Ukraine, Soviet Kazakhstan, and Soviet Russia died horrible…

— Timothy Snyder

The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of prosperous peasants…

— Norman Davies

Simultaneously the Left Opposition in the course of several years carried on a struggle against the Stalinists in favor of collectivization.

— Leon Trotsky

“One might say that, until now, the social, cultural, and political framework for knowledge of the Gulag has not been in place. I first…

— Anne Applebaum

Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away…

— Margaret Thatcher

“And this man, who during three long decades had not once remembered that the world contains lilac bushes - and pansies, sandy garden paths,…

— Vasily Grossman

“To outsmart you they thought up work squads—but not squads like the ones outside the camps, where everyone is paid his separate wage. Everything…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

I've been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was Butugychag, a former gulag in…

— Michael Palin

If bones could freeze, then the brain could also be dulled and the soul could freeze over. And the soul shuddered and froze- perhaps…

— Varlam Shalamov

After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American…

— David Levering Lewis

“It was officially known as Kwan-li-so Number 18. That meant Penal Labor Colony in Korean. It was a concentration camp. It was a gulag.…

— David Baldacci

“My blissful childhood was shattered without warning when I was about ten years old. One day, my father told me that he had spent…

— Anonymous

“Oh, "what an intelligent, farsighted humane administration from top to bottom," as Supreme Court Judge Leibowitz of New York State wrote in Life magazine,…

— Alexander Solschenizyn

“...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything . For a person you've taken everything from is no longer…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn