Status Updates From Life and Fate (Stalingrad, #2)

" اتضح أن الإفراط في عنف الأنظمة الاجتماعية الشمولية قادرٌ على شل الروح الإنسانية على مساحة قارات بأكملها."

“Time is a transparent medium. People and cities arise out of it, move through it and disappear back into it. It is time that brings them and time that takes them away.” [p.35]

grossman is of course a believer in 'totalitarianism' as an framework for understanding both nazism & stalinism but it's hard for me to read his descriptions of the holocaust and also properly stomach chandler's introductory assertion that the work "establishes the identity of nazism and soviet communism." but i guess we will see what grossman thinks as we go on.