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Russia (Soviet Union)

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The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

Leon Trotsky

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The Hitlerite blackguards… have turned Europe into a prison of nations, and this they call the new order in Europe.

Joseph Stalin

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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

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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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Petersburg, the most theoretical and intentional town on the whole terrestrial globe.

Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky

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