Community Quote by Milan Kundera

“We have no idea any more what it means to feel guilty. The communists have the excuse that Stalin misled them, murdurers have the…

— Milan Kundera

“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

The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

“I heard of that bloodthirsty old murderer Josef Stalin inviting all nations to join a happy family of folks devoted to the abolition of…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed ... there is nothing…

— Robert Harris

“Unlike other dictators, Stalin and his satraps never made the mistake of believing themselves beloved -- on the contrary they saw plots under every…

— Anna Reid

A Stalin functionary admitted, Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people were arrested only for specific misdemeanours,…

— Paul Johnson

“In a “secret speech” to the twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev made a sensational revelation of the…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“There are two kinds of Communists: the arrogant ones, who enter the fray hoping to make men out of the people and bring progress…

— Orhan Pamuk

“Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people do horrible…

— Slavoj Žižek

“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

“(Please forgive us, reader. We have once more gone astray with this rightist opportunism—this concept of "guilt," and of the guilty or innocent. It…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn