In the German tongue, in the Polish town Scraped flat by the roller Of wars, wars, wars ...
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Sylvia Plath
I never thought that it would look like this. The October of 2009 was a difficult period, and not just because of the bad weather. Attacks intensified against military units and every patrol was highly dangerous. A lot of time has passed since the first...
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Artur Fidler
We wanted to be free and owe this freedom to nobody.
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Anonymous
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...
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Christopher Hitchens
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest–fractionally more brave, one might say–about that 'other' cleansing of the regions and peoples that were ground to atoms between the upper and nether millstones of Hitlerism and...
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Christopher Hitchens