"No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-Kantian, a Subjectivist, an Agnostic, or, God forbi...

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ~












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"Where an open war is impossible, oppression can continue quietly behind the scenes. Terrorism. Guerrilla warfare, violence, prisons, concentration cam...
"The Communist leaders respect only firmness and have contempt for persons who continually give in to them.
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"Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.
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