“Socialism cannot be implemented without the aid of coercion.”
“Truth eludes us if we do not concentrate with total attention on its pursuit. But even while it eludes us, the illusion of knowing still lingers and leads to many misunderstandings.”
“In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.”
“[The Soviet Union,] in time of peace, artificially created a famine, causing 6 million persons to die in the Ukraine in 1932 and 1933. They died on the very edge of Europe. And Europe didn’t even notice it. The world didn’t even notice it…”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn