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“Time will absorb all the horror and grief into oblivion—as it did with so many wars and battles that had visited this land before.”
Illia Ponomarenko, I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv

David Grann
“Empires preserve their power with the stories that they tell, but just as critical are the stories they don’t—the dark silences they impose, the pages they tear out.”
David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

Anne Applebaum
“Sometimes the point isn’t to make people believe a lie; it’s to make people fear the liar.”
Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

Garry Kasparov
“Communism is like an autoimmune disorder; it doesn’t do the killing itself, but it weakens the system so much that the victim is left helpless and unable to fight off anything else. It destroys the human spirit on an individual level, perverting the values of a successful free society.”
Garry Kasparov, Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped

Masha Gessen
“A constant state of low-level dread made people easy to control, because it robbed them of the sense that they could control anything themselves. This was not the sort of anxiety that moved people to action and accomplishment. This was the sort of anxiety that exceeded human capacity.”
Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

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