“The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.Leon Trotsky
“The Hitlerite blackguards… have turned Europe into a prison of nations, and this they call the new order in Europe.Joseph Stalin
“I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me. Boris Pasternak
“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
“Petersburg, the most theoretical and intentional town on the whole terrestrial globe.Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky