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Josef Stalin

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No foreign sky protected me,
no stranger’s wing shielded my face.
I stand as witness to the common lot,
survivor of that time, that place.

Anna Akhmatova

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In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the crowd identified me… and asked me in a whisper… “Can you describe this?” And I said: “I can.”

Anna Akhmatova

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And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter.

Boris Pasternak

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One by one forging his laws, to be flung
Like horseshoes at the head, the eye, or the groin.
And every killing is a treat
For the broad-chested Ossete.

Osip Emilevich Mandelstam

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