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"But from 1945 to 1989 inter-state war disappeared from the continent of Europe. Two generations of Europeans grew up under the hitherto inconceivable impression that peace was the natural order of things."

"The privileged children of the bourgeoisie were screaming revolutionary slogans and beating up the underpaid sons of southern sharecroppers charged with preserving civic order." Pier Paolo Pasolini on Italy in 1968

"Writers, professors, artists, teachers and journalists frequently admired Stalin not in spite of his faults, but because of them. It was when he was murdering people on an industrial scale, when the show trials were displaying Soviet Communism at its most theatrically macabre, that men and women beyond Stalin's grasp were most seduced by the man and his cult."