Committed Quote by Milan Kundera

In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

The shameless criminality of Lenin, Stalin, and the Cheka cast a long shadow, but I don't see their kind returning anytime soon.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“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

Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand…

— Klaus Fuchs

There is no doubt that [Vladimir] Putin is responsible for this crime, whether or not he gave the order to commit the murder [of…

— Garry Kasparov

“Never since the days of the Spartan Helots has history recorded such brutality as has been ever since the war and as is now…

— Lucy Parsons

“For social pathologies like the Great Purges, there are no fully satisfactory explanations. Every individual knows that he is powerless, an actual or potential…

— Sheila Fitzpatrick

Our [Russia]documents have gone on to be used in quite a number of court cases: refugee cases of people fleeing some kind of claimed…

— Julian Assange

Both Moscow and [Kiev], the modern and the ancient capitals, were reduced to ashes [by the Tartars]; a temporary ruin, less fatal than the…

— Edward Gibbon

“In his lifetime, Stalin will murder millions of people. Some will be shot, others will be denied food and ultimately die of starvation, millions…

— Bill O'Reilly

The Gulag Archipelago, 'he informed an incredulous world that the blood-maddened Jewish terrorists had murdered sixty-six million victims in Russia from 1918 to 1957!…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Moreover, there is this completely false trial. I would participate wholeheartedly in a trial if it were to determine the guilt for 5 million…

— Hans Fritzsche