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“But he also wrote in that same letter that he believed Hitler was a man of his word—a grievous error, as he would soon…

— Volker Ullrich

“If political scientists couldn’t predict the downfall of the Soviet Union—perhaps the most important event in the latter half of the twentieth century—then what…

— Nate Silver

“I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so…

— Shelby Foote

“We often like to think of World War II as a triumph of freedom over totalitarianism. We conveniently forget that the Soviet Union was…

— Paul Graham

“I was involuntarily struck by the aptitude which the Russian displays for accommodating himself to the customs of the people in whose midst he…

— Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov

“The great writer was mortally afraid of the rising generation of young revolutionaries, and imagining, through his ignorance of things, that they held the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“In a regime where words are watched, lies are rewarded, and silence is survival, there is no truth. - Symphony for the City of…

— M T Anderson

“Of the 3 million prisoners taken by the Soviets during the war, more than a third died in captivity.”

— Keith Lowe

“Comrade, I did not want to kill you. . . . But you were only an idea to me before, an abstraction that lived…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“The enemy wasn't men, or women, or the old, or even the dead. It was just bleedin' stupid people, who came in all varieties.…

— Terry Pratchett