“To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.”

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“The idea of a concentration camp is excellent.”

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“The Devil's on my side, he's a good Communist.”

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“This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.”

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“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

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“Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.”

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“People who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”

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“Education is a weapon whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

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“If, in a bad dream, we had seen all of the horrors in store for us after the war, we should have been sorry not to see Stalin go down together with Hitler: an end to the war in favour of our allies, civilized countries with democratic traditions, would have meant a hundred times less suffering for our people than that which Stalin again inflicted on it after his victory.”

— Boris Pasternak Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к 1890 – 1960 CE
Russia's greatest poet

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“I believe that in the future we shall come to feel that Stalin's foreign policy, instead of being so diabolically clever as it is claimed to be, has been merely opportunistic and stupid.”

— George Orwell 1903 – 1950 CE
English, poet, humanist, apostle of doubt, and powerful political influence
from Looking Back on the Spanish Civil War

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“I am completely at a loss to understand how it came about that some people who are both humane and intelligent could find something to admire in the vast slave camp produced by Stalin.”

— Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970 CE
“20th century Voltaire”
from Portraits From Memory And Other Essays ​

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“We are asked by the supporters of Stalin's government to believe that the best and shortest road to liberty is through military servitude; that the most suitable preparation for responsible self-government is a tyranny employing police espionage, delation, legalized terrorism and press censorship; that the proper education for future freemen and peace-lovers is that which was and is still being used by Prussian militarists.”

— Aldous Huxley 1894 – 1963 CE
from Ends and Means (1937)

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“The only man for whom Hitler had ‘unqualified respect’ was ‘Stalin the genius’, and while in the case of Stalin and the Russian regime we do not… have the rich documentary material that is available for Germany, we nevertheless know since Khrushchev’s speech before the Twentieth Party Congress that Stalin trusted only one man and that was Hitler.”

— Hannah Arendt 1906 – 1975 CE
Fearless researcher into the darker reaches of the human psyche
from The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)

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“You protest, and with justice, each time Hitler jails an opponent; but you forget that Stalin and company have jailed and murdered a thousand times as many. It seems to me, and indeed the evidence is plain, that compared to the Moscow brigands and assassins, Hitler is hardly more than a common Ku Kluxer and Mussolini almost a philanthropist.”

— Henry Louis Mencken 1880 – 1956 CE
alt.right founding father
from American Mercury (1936)

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