Cases Quote by Ryszard Kapuscinski

“Political calculation and local suffering do not entirely explain the participation in these pogroms. Violence against Jews served to bring the Germans and elements…

— Timothy Snyder

For the Russians, the displacement of the Holocaust is calculated and cynical. It's not emotional; they don't care about the Holocaust one way or…

— Timothy D. Snyder

“It was an interesting dilemma and pointed up a real point of difference between Nazism and Communism as forms of government: there was no…

— Philip Kerr

Russia made a decisive contribution to the victory over Nazism. That's clear to every honest observer. So, therefore, in a certain manner, it is…

— Dmitry Medvedev

As awful as the crimes of Stalinism were, the vast majority of the Russian population was trying to survive, to love, to have a…

— Amor Towles

The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of that Cold…

— Robert Conquest

There is also this great sense of triumphalism, that just as we defeated the Soviet Union, we can do this. And out of this…

— Edward Said

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.

— Arundhati Roy

“As a form of neurosis, race-conscious nationalism almost always ignores logic and knowledge: In the East European civil wars between 1918 and 1920 Jews…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face of surrounding…

— Joseph Stalin

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Unlike the Holocaust, Stalin's murders are forgotten: dust blowing in the wind.

— Robert Harris