Change Quote by Timothy Snyder

“I believe profoundly that in the struggle against Communists and their organizations [...] we cannot and should not resort to the methods and forms…

— Victor Kravchenko

“It was characteristic of the rise of the Nazi movement in Germany and of the Communist movements in Europe after 1930 that they recruited…

— Hannah Arendt

“Both fascism and communism were responses to globalization: to the real and perceived inequalities it created, and the apparent helplessness of the democracies in…

— Timothy Snyder

“Separated from National Socialism by time and luck, we find it easy to dismiss Nazi ideas without contemplating how they functioned. Our forgetfulness convinces…

— Timothy Snyder

“Other forces were at work besides conformism. But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.”

— Timothy Snyder

“In the twentieth century, all the major enemies of freedom were hostile to non-governmental organizations, charities, and the like. Communists required all such groups…

— Timothy Snyder

“These men wanted Hitler in a position to put an end to the Republic and to return Germany to the days of the Kaiser.…

— Ellen Marie Wiseman

“The most interesting aspects of the story lie between the two extremes of coercion and popularity. It might be instructive to consider fascist regimes’…

— Robert O. Paxton

“Hitler’s regime maintained its generally accepted authority in Germany almost until the bitter end. In fact, large parts of the population supported that regime…

— Geert Mak

“The experiences of other totalitarian dictatorships show that behind the centralized and hierarchical communication and decision-making structures, apparently so clearly ordered by way of…

— Jens Gieseke

“As time went on, the Communists and the POUM wrote more bitterly about one another than about the Fascists.”

— George Orwell

“The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt…

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn