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Anne Applebaum
“Although the definition of an 'enemy of the state' changed over time, the mechanisms to deal with these enemies were put in place right at the very beginning.”
Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956

Taras Shevchenko
“«НЕ ЗАВИДУЙ БАГАТОМУ...»

Не завидуй багатому,
Багатий не знає
Ні приязні, ні любові —
Він все те наймає.
Не завидуй могучому,
Бо той заставляє.
Не завидуй і славному,
Славний добре знає,
Що не його люди люблять,
А ту тяжку славу,
Що він тяжкими сльозами
Вилив на забаву.
А молоді як зійдуться,
Та любо та тихо,
Як у раї, — а дивишся:
Ворушиться лихо.
Не завидуй же нікому,
Дивись кругом себе,
Нема раю на всій землі,
Та нема й на небі.”
Taras Shevchenko

Timothy Snyder
“The good people died first.”
Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Timothy Snyder
“It is easy to sanctify policies or identities by the deaths of victims. It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral danger, after all, is never that one might become a victim but that one might be a perpetrator or a bystander.”
Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Anne Applebaum
“Totalitarian regimes, they declared, all had at least five things in common: a dominant ideology, a single ruling party, a secret police force prepared to use terror, a monopoly on information, and a planned economy. By those criteria, the Soviet and Nazi regimes were not the only totalitarian states. Others—Mao’s China, for example—qualified too.”
Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

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