Arrested Quote by Paul Johnson

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 know they say (Stalin) killed 20, 30, 40 million people. It's bullsh*t. (I have yet to find) one crime that Stalin committed.

— Grover Furr

Stalin, of course, never went on trial, but his legacy did. In 1956, three years after his death, he was denounced by Nikita Khrushchev.…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“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

As long as [Mikhail] Saakashvili is president, I will be unable to prove my innocence in Georgia. Seen in this light, there is a…

— Irakli Okruashvili

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at…

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

“It was astonishing that the pseudo wreckers, who knew perfectly well that they weren't wreckers, believed that military men and priests were being shaken…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“One time, Alexander Nikolaevich discovered, Stalin invited an old friend back in Georgia to Moscow for a reunion. They dined and drank—Stalin took pride…

— Masha Gessen

“According to Soviet law, crime and the intent to commit crime are virtually the same thing … In the coming trial the prosecution expects…

— Dennis Glover

The language of these Soviet show trials... could only be understood in the Aesopian imagery of the closed Bolshevik universe of conspiracies of evil…

— Simon Sebag-Montefiore

In Stalinism, everybody was potentially a victim in a totally contingent way.

— Slavoj Žižek

“There are doubtless those who would wish to lock up all those who suspected of terrorist and other serious offences and, in the time-honored…

— Tom Bingham