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what Russia's young...intellectuals and cultural elite hoped for and expected was the end of autocracy, class division, and religion, and the advent of liberalism, equality, and secularism. What they got instead was dictatorship, gulags and the extermination of free speech and expression. Communists had sold their ideology to gullible optimists as the fullest version of the thing every modern person wanted: progress.
— Feb 05, 2021 07:05AM
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Amanda Betts
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"if we latter-day believers are not able and willing to be faithful in the relatively small trials we face now, there is no reason to think we will have what it takes to endure serious persecution in the future."
— Feb 16, 2021 10:25AM
Amanda Betts
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"...we not only have to remember totalitarianism to build a resistance to it; we have to remember how to remember, period."
— Feb 10, 2021 05:32AM
