“Seventy years of communism had destroyed the work ethic of an entire nation. Millions of Russians had been sent to the gulags for showing the slightest hint of personal initiative. The Soviets severely penalized independent thinkers, so the natural self-preservation reaction was to do as little as possible and hope that nobody would notice you.”
― Red Notice: How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy
― Red Notice: How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy
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