Great-terror Quote by M T Anderson

“And so the Red Army, squeezed between two of the most brutal dictators in human history, fought on. - Symphony for the City of…

— M T Anderson

“When we read tales of atrocity, we all want to be the one who stood firm, who would not bend, who shouted the truth…

— M T Anderson

“Out in the palace gardens, groundskeepers buried statues in the dirt. As Justice and Peace were entombed together, a workman wrote on one flank…

— M T Anderson

“The cities of Russia and Poland were burned, their inhabitants tortured and massacred, with the consequence that progress was retarded for centuries. Almost”

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

“In Russia, perhaps truth and tragedy were always intertwined.”

— Laura Rose

“Tanya, I can not tell you how Leningrad looks today. I used to say that Paris is the most beautiful in the world, and…

— Miroslav Antić

Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please…

— Edward Abbey

“How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are left orphaned.…

— Peter Pomerantsev

“We should have known that the only reason that Shostakovich’s nightmare restored us to ourselves was so we’d be compelled to drink the cup…

— William T. Vollmann

“But Dmitri Shostakovich and Boris Pasternak and Naguib Mahfouz were also right; never leave the homeland. Leave and your connections to the source will…

— Hisham Mitam

“We want what the woman wanted in the prison queue in Leningrad, standing there with cold and whispering for fear, enduring the terror of…

— Seamus Heaney

“There were no disagreements in Stalin’s universe, only heresies; no critics, only enemies; no errors, only crimes. The trials served both to illustrate Stalin’s…

— Tony Judt