Coffins Quote by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“One time, Alexander Nikolaevich discovered, Stalin invited an old friend back in Georgia to Moscow for a reunion. They dined and drank—Stalin took pride…

— Masha Gessen

“Villages that had been groaning beneath the iron weight of Stalin’s hand breathed a sigh of relief. And the many millions confined in the…

— Vasily Grossman

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.

— Edgar Bergen

“Now we will live!” This is what the hungry little boy liked to say, as he toddled along the quiet roadside, or through the…

— Timothy Snyder

“Find the crime, Arkady thought: trying to kill Stalin or missing him.”

— Martin Cruz Smith

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at…

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

“I've been thinking,' said Allan. 'What,' said Stalin angrily. 'Why don't you shave off that moustache?' With that the dinner was over, because the…

— Jonas Jonasson

“I shall destroy capitalism! Do you hear! I shall destroy every single capitalist! And I shall start with you, you dog, if you don't…

— Jonas Jonasson

“How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are left orphaned.…

— Peter Pomerantsev

“How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are left orphaned.…

— Peter Pomerantsev

“There was an old bastard named Lenin Who did two or three million men in. That's a lot to have done in But where…

— Robert Conquest

To make a Frankenstein monster of a complex character like Stalin would have been too simplistic. I wanted to show who he was and,…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore