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“[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova]
In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave me the happiness of being her husband. During the almost forty years of our life together she remained an inexhaustible source of love, magnanimity, and tenderness. She underwent great sufferings, especially in the last period of our lives. But I find some comfort in the fact that she also knew days of happiness.
For forty-three years of my conscious life I have remained a revolutionist; for forty-two of them I have fought under the banner of Marxism. If I had to begin all over again I would of course try to avoid this or that mistake, but the main course of my life would remain unchanged. I shall die a proletarian revolutionist, a Marxist, a dialectical materialist, and, consequently, an irreconcilable atheist. My faith in the communist future of mankind is not less ardent, indeed it is firmer today, than it was in the days of my youth.
Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.”
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In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave me the happiness of being her husband. During the almost forty years of our life together she remained an inexhaustible source of love, magnanimity, and tenderness. She underwent great sufferings, especially in the last period of our lives. But I find some comfort in the fact that she also knew days of happiness.
For forty-three years of my conscious life I have remained a revolutionist; for forty-two of them I have fought under the banner of Marxism. If I had to begin all over again I would of course try to avoid this or that mistake, but the main course of my life would remain unchanged. I shall die a proletarian revolutionist, a Marxist, a dialectical materialist, and, consequently, an irreconcilable atheist. My faith in the communist future of mankind is not less ardent, indeed it is firmer today, than it was in the days of my youth.
Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.”
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“And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in Eastern Europe were Jews. And not just a great number, but a great proportion. The proportion was especially high in the secret police and 'security' departments, where no doubt revenge played its own part, as did the ideological attachment to Communism that was so strong among internationally minded Jews at that period: Jews like David Szmulevski. There were reasonably strong indigenous Communist forces in Czechoslovakia and East Germany, but in Hungary and Poland the Communists were a small minority and knew it, were dependent on the Red Army and aware of the fact, and were disproportionately Jewish and widely detested for that reason. Many of the penal labor camps constructed by the Nazis were later used as holding pens for German deportees by the Communists, and some of those who ran these grim places were Jewish. Nobody from Israel or the diaspora who goes to the East of Europe on a family-history fishing-trip should be unaware of the chance that they will find out both much less and much more than the package-tour had promised them. It's easy to say, with Albert Camus, 'neither victims nor executioners.' But real history is more pitiless even than you had been told it was.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir

“袝褋谢懈 斜褘 薪械屑褑褘 蟹邪锌芯谢薪懈谢懈 薪邪褕懈 褕褌邪斜褘 褕锌懈芯薪邪屑懈, 邪 胁芯泄褋泻邪 写懈胁械褉褋邪薪褌邪屑懈, 械褋谢懈 斜褘 斜褘谢芯 屑邪褋褋芯胁芯械 锌褉械写邪褌械谢褜褋褌胁芯 懈 胁褉邪谐懈 褉邪蟹褉邪斜芯褌邪谢懈 斜褘 写械褌邪谢褜薪褘泄 锌谢邪薪 褉邪蟹胁邪谢邪 薪邪褕械泄 邪褉屑懈懈, 芯薪懈 薪械 写芯褋褌懈谐谢懈 斜褘 褌芯谐芯 褝褎褎械泻褌邪, 泻芯褌芯褉褘泄 斜褘谢 褉械蟹褍谢褜褌邪褌芯屑 懈写懈芯褌懈蟹屑邪, 褌褍锌芯褋褌懈, 斜械蟹芯褌胁械褌褋褌胁械薪薪芯褋褌懈 薪邪褔邪谢褜褋褌胁邪 懈 斜械褋锌芯屑芯褖薪芯泄 锌芯泻芯褉薪芯褋褌懈 褋芯谢写邪褌.”
― 袙芯褋锌芯屑懈薪邪薪懈褟 芯 胁芯泄薪械
― 袙芯褋锌芯屑懈薪邪薪懈褟 芯 胁芯泄薪械

“Now there is a modern-day anthropology* for the criminal type: a great number of so-called 'born criminals' have pale faces, large cheekbones, a coarse lower jaw, and deeply shining eyes. How can one not recall this when one thinks of Lenin and thousands like him? How many pale faces, high cheekbones and strikingly asymmetric features mark the soldiers of the Red Army and, generally speaking, also of the common Russian people - how many of them, these savage types, have Mongolian atavism directly in their blood! They are all from Murom, the white-eyed Chud. And it is precisely these individuals, these very Russichi, who gave us so many 'daring pirates', so many vagabonds, escapees, scoundrels and tramps - it is precisely these people whom we have recruited for the glory, pride and hope of the Russian social revolution. So why should we feign surprise at the results?”
― Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution
― Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution

“I heard people talking about what this Red Army did to any Germans they captured, and this only added to my fears.”
― Uncle Hitler: A Child's Traumatic Journey Through Nazi Hell to the Safety of Britain
― Uncle Hitler: A Child's Traumatic Journey Through Nazi Hell to the Safety of Britain

“Most people thought that we would remain in the ghetto until the end of the war, until the arrival of the Red Army. Afterward everything would be as before. The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion.”
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“Of the 403,272 tank soldiers (including a small number of women) who were trained by the Red Army in the war, 310,000 would die. Even the most optimistic troops knew what would happen when a tank was shelled. The white-hot flash of the explosion would almost certainly ignite the tank crew鈥檚 fuel and ammunition. At best, the crew鈥攐r those at least who had not been decapitated or dismembered by the shell itself鈥攚ould have no more than ninety seconds to climb out of their cabin. Much of that time would be swallowed up as they struggled to open the heavy, sometimes red-hot, hatch, which might have jammed after the impact anyway. The battlefield was no haven, but it was safer than the armored coffin that would now begin to blaze, its metal components to melt. This was not simply 鈥渂oiling up.鈥 The tank would also torch the atmosphere around it. By then, there could be no hope for the men inside. Not unusually, their bodies were so badly burned that the remains were inseparable. 鈥淗ave you burned yet?鈥 was a question tank men often asked each other when they met for the first time. A dark joke from this stage in the war has a politruk informing a young man that almost every tank man in his group has died that day. 鈥淚鈥檓 sorry,鈥 the young man replies. 鈥淚鈥檒l make sure that I burn tomorrow.”
― Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945
― Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945
“The lesson of the experience is that, whatever the immediate problems, of this or that situation, if a standing army has to be formed which operates outside the control of the organs of working class rule, this is not just undesirable but also a real obstacle to the process of building socialism. The Red Army may have won the civil war, but its victory turned out to be a Pyrrhic one which sounded the death-knell of the kind of society most Bolsheviks, and the majority of the working class, had envisaged in 1917.”
― Russia: Revolution and Counter-Revolution, 1905-1924. A View from the Communist Left
― Russia: Revolution and Counter-Revolution, 1905-1924. A View from the Communist Left
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