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Stalin’s Gamble: The Search for Allies against Hitler, 1930–1936

by Michael Jabara Carley (Goodreads Author)

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“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.”
― Robert Jordan

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“-O άνθρωπος είναι χτήνος! φώναξε και χτύπησε με θυμό το ραβδί του στις πέτρες. Μεγάλο χτήνος. Δεν το ξέρει η ευγένειά σου, σου ήρθαν μαθές όλα βολικά, μα ρώτα και μένα· χτήνος, σου λέω! Του 'καμες κακό; Σε σέβεται και σε τρέμει. Του 'καμες καλό; Σου βγάζει τα μάτια.”
― Νίκος Καζαντζάκης, Zorba the Greek

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― H.L. Mencken

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“I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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