101 ratings (4.12 avg)
0 reviews
more photos (3)

Olga Kerziouk

Add friend

Olga’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (116)
currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (101)
did-not-finish‎ (0)

favorites‎ (0)

Stats | More…

“In the middle of Europe in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered some fourteen million people. The place where all of the victims died, the bloodlands, extends from central Poland to western Russia, through Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic States.”
― Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

4 likes

“Most of the time, however, the cruelty of Soviet camp guards was unthinking, stupid, lazy cruelty, of the sort that might be shown to cattle or sheep.”
― Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History

3 likes

“The brilliance of this new type of authoritarianism is that instead of simply oppressing opposition, as had been the case with twentieth-century strains, it climbs inside all ideologies and movements, exploiting and rendering them absurd.”
― Peter Pomerantsev

1 likes

“Єдина свобода на цьому світі – це свобода творця. Але творців катастрофічно бракує. Дехто навіть не здогадується про силу, котра дрімає в ньому, пробиваючись крізь сон життя.”
― Галина Пагутяк, Сни Юлії і Германа. Кенізберзький щоденник

2 likes

“On the Ostankino channels the President's personal confessor, the Archimandrite Tikhon, dressed in a long black cassock and walking through Istanbul, is telling a prime-time tale about the fall of Byzantium, of how the great Orthodox Empire (to which Russia is the successor) was brought low by a mix of oligarchs and the West. Professional historians howl in protest at this pseudo-history, but the Kremlin is starting to use religion and the supernatural for its own ends. Byzantium and Muscovy could only flourish under one great autocrat, the Archimandrite states. This is why we need the President to be like a tsar.”
― Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia

1 likes

More of Olga’s quotes…