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Absolutely incredible and necessary. This book will shatter your perceptions of post-WWII America and make you question why things are the way they are today. Did we do enough to denazify? Absolutely not. Did we even care? Read this book.

Prosecutor (East Germany): “Oh, you’re finally talking about Nazis? Why did it take you so long? All those scientists you brought over…”

American General: “Well, East Germany had plenty of Nazis of its own. What did it do with all of them?”

Prosecutor: “We shot them.”

“It was apparent that Cuba’s startling economic windfall was not being used to meet the needs of the people but rather to pad the private bank accounts and pocketbooks of a powerful group of corrupt politicians and American ‘investors.’”

-"Havana Nocturne" by T. J. English

"A divided left failed to resist the fascist takeover". Definitely something to take into mind for the future political revolution.

Such a great book!

"Where the United States (for example) was a society ruled by lawyers, with a deep well of campus idealism among literature professors and sociologists, the Soviet Union was a society ruled by engineers, with a well of idealism among mathematicians and physicists."

- Red Plenty (Francis Spufford), Page 146

Didn't finish in time before my hold expired on Libby, I'll come back to this.

“Fun can be overrated, I replied. Too much of it and then it doesn't mean very much. Like living on candy instead of saving it for special occasions.”