146 Quotes by Anne Applebaum

As time went on, the communist attack on civil society would change and become more sophisticated. In order to create competition for authentic civil society, the regimes would create ersatz ‘official’ civic groups, organizations that sometimes looked independent but were in fact controlled by the state.

Most of the people buying the Soviet paraphernalia were Americans and West Europeans. All would be sickened by the thought of wearing a swastika. None objected, however, to wearing the hammer and sickle on a T-shirt or a hat. It.

A totalitarian regime thus has one political party, one educational system, one artistic creed, one centrally planned economy, one unified media, and one moral code. In a totalitarian state there are no independent schools, no private businesses, no grassroots organizations, and no critical thought.

If we do not try harder to remember the history of the other half of the European continent, the history of the other twentieth-century totalitarian regime, in the end it is we in the West who will not understand our past, we who will not know how our world came to be the way it is. And.

Those who can walk will walk. Protest or not – all will walk. Those who can’t walk – we will shoot.

Every artificially inseminated pig is a blow to the face of Imperialist warmongers.

Moscow. In the early 1930s, however, such glasnost.

Although the definition of an ‘enemy of the state’ changed over time, the mechanisms to deal with these enemies were put in place right at the very beginning.

The incident illustrates the distinct absence of a communist sense of humor.