Crime Quote by Doris Lessing

Hitler was without a doubt exceptional in his criminal deeds. Yet in many respects, he was not at all out of the ordinary.

— Volker Ullrich

I consider him Stalin one of the greatest persons in the history of mankind. In the history of Russia he was, in my opinion,…

— Alexander Zinoviev

I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Western intellectual enthusiasm for Communism tended to peak not in times of ‘goulash Communism’ or ‘Socialism with a human face’, but rather at the…

— Tony Judt

In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people.

— Hermann Goring

“Though Stalin was no more to be trusted than was Hitler, and though he was responsible for the deaths of more citizens of his…

— Archie Brown

“This absolute lack of objectivity might be said to resemble nothing so much as the lack of objectivity these same people had shown during…

— Vasily Grossman

“Hitler is a monster of wickedness, insatiable in his lust for blood and plunder. Not content with having all Europe under his heel, or…

— Sir Winston Churchill

I don't for a minute think that Hitler is like Joan of Arc. But I think that at that deep level of tropisms, Hitler…

— Nathalie Sarraute

Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.

— Idi Amin

Saddam Hussein admired, studied, and copied Stalin, the paragon of modern dictators.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never…

— W. Averell Harriman