Quote by Theodore Hall Download Open image “I think my emotional revulsion against Stalin's terror would have stopped me in my tracks.” — Theodore Hall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
We're invited to believe that the worst effects of Stalinism arose from its 'dogmatic' intransigence; but it is precisely because so much was left… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
I admit I distorted intelligence to please Stalin because I feared him. — Filipp Golikov Copy Share Image
If Hitler hadn't turned against their beloved Stalin, liberals would have stuck by him, too. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“Stalin's mental journey, by 1943, proceeded in the opposite direction to that of Hitler. One moved toward reality; the other moved away from it. They crossed paths at Stalingrad. And as the war turned on the hinge of that battle (and on the new psychological opposition), Stalin might have concerned himself with a "counterfactual": if, instead of decapitating his army,… — Martin Amis Copy Share
“Not only to myself or before the mirror or at the hour of my death, which I hope will be long in coming, but… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
For a time I gave the appearance of defending Stalin. I didn't defend what he had done; the fact is, nobody could defend the… — Tim Buck Copy Share Image
“Some lurid things have been said about me—that I am a racist, a hopeless alcoholic, a closet homosexual and so forth—that I leave to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing… — Earl Browder Copy Share Image
