Case Quote by Richard Dawkins

Again, it is belief without evidence. In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of the Communist…

— Richard Dawkins

The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“A good communist,” the man had said, “does not let go of the plough halfway across the paddy and leave the buffalo to find…

— Colin Cotterill

The climatically inefficient and economically disastrous Kyoto Protocol, based on IPCC projections, was correctly defined by President George W. Bush as "fatally flawed". This…

— Zbigniew Jaworowski

It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian…

— Noam Chomsky

Perestroika is nothing more than refined Stalinism.

— Dan Quayle

In the post-Soviet era, the most interesting work on the Stalinist period has been social history, far beyond the Kremlin walls - the study…

— Keith Gessen

“He who does not cry out the truth when he knows the truth becomes the accomplice of the liars and falsifiers.”

— Victor Serge

Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national socialism: the…

— Leon Trotsky

“Should we wrap it all up and simply say that they arrested the innocent? But we omitted saying that the very concept of guilt…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days. The three extra days were for leap years.”

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“If your case, as a politically repressed person, is reviewed by the Special Council, you are almost guaranteed the standard sentence: ten years in…

— Anonymous