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“To be enlisted posthumously into competing national memories, bolstered by the numbers of which your life has become a part, is to sacrifice individuality. It is to be abandoned by history, which begins from the assumption that each person is irreducible.”
― Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

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“Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song.”
― Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

tags: closure

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“As I could, I loved you.”
― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch

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“Here, perhaps, is a purpose for history, somewhere between the record of death and its constant reinterpretation. Only a history of mass killing can unite the numbers and the memories. Without history, the memories become private, which today means national; and the numbers become public, which is to say an instrument in the international competition for martyrdom.”
― Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

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“The Germans murdered about as many non-Jews as Jews during the war, chiefly by starving Soviet prisoners of war (more than three million) and residents of besieged cities (more than a million) or by shooting civilians in “reprisals” (the better part of a million, chiefly Belarusians and Poles).”
― Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

tags: history, holocoust, politics

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