Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the greatest bulwark against tyranny is an arsenal of nuclear warheads. John Paul has no armies at his command. His strength is truth. John Paul has not a single armament at his disposal. Courage is his only defense. The military power of a Caesar, a Hitler or a Stalin is short-lived compared with the moral power of leaders like Jesus, Gandhi and John Paul...
...require young people to obtain approval from party cadres before falling in love. More than 40,000 former royalist military officers and other "enemies of the state" were banished to "reeducation camps" in a jungle gulag that, in proportion to the respective populations, was larger than Stalin...
...Holocaust, which was to consume all three of his sisters. He knew of anti-Semitism when it was virulent but not lethal; he experienced bureaucracy before the days of printouts and systems analysts; and the tyranny he understood best was the kind that Freud explored, not the sort that Stalin and Hitler employed...
...Ethiopian interlocutors speak in the same ironic voice; the reader will soon come to identify it as the author's own. Indeed, there are moments when Kapuściński's fugitive images of Haile Selassie seem to merge with his visions of Stalin and other Communist leaders who have inflamed the writer's political fantasies. Little wonder that when The Emperor was published in Poland in 1978, this story of an evil autocrat surrounded by craven functionaries was read as an allegory of Communist rule. Who but Stalin, for example, might have justified a famine...
Johnson supplements this observation with brief, vivid histories that illustrate the natural advantage of the ruthless and unrestrained. All the evidence suggests that the century's major revolutionary tyrants have killed considerably more of their native populations than the governments they replaced. Lenin and Stalin perverted socialist ideals and millions of Russians died. In Central and Eastern Europe, nationalists succeeded in gaining self-determination only to repress ethnic minorities within their own borders...