Bob

“Lenin, albeit tardily, realized that Stalin’s personality very much mattered.”
― Robert C. Tucker, Stalin as Revolutionary: A Study in History and Personality, 1879-1929

“My deep misgivings occurred to me firstly as a schoolboy, continued later as a sailor, developed further as a civilian employee, 197and have been evolving in my semi-retirement. What started initially as a gap in trust has become a yawning gulf. We are where we are, and as the situation”
― Paul Cardin, Return to Bomb Alley 1982: The Falklands Deception

“suspect that highly sensitive exclusives have in the past and are now being carefully drip-fed to selected, compromised outlets by Blairite / Brownite / Cameronite / Mayite / Johnsonite governments and are timed for the greatest advantage within the managed control of information. With all this mutual back scratching, no journalist exists with the ability or courage needed to blow the whistle – Assange-like – on such a sordid situation.”
― Paul Cardin, Return to Bomb Alley 1982: The Falklands Deception

“This was to emasculate Lenin’s accusation in the act of pleading guilty to it.”
― Robert C. Tucker, Stalin as Revolutionary: A Study in History and Personality, 1879-1929