It was 1991… A happy time! We believed that tomorrow, the very next day, would usher in freedom. Soon, we will learn everything and be horrified,’ my friend would say in my kitchen, where we often sat talking. But we will courageously take it upon ourselves to educate them. We don’t understand what the majority of people think about we see them, we interact with them every day, but what’s on their minds? What do they want? We have no idea. How were we supposed to live with this? Many greeted the truth as an enemy. They were overcome with unspeakable horror. People read newspapers and magazines, and sat in stunned silence. When I have your mothers eating their young, then you can tell me you’re starving.’ (Trotsky, 1919.) When Titus was taking Jerusalem, Jewish mothers ate their children. ‘Moscow is literally dying of hunger.’ (N.G. ‘We must hang (and it has to be hanging, so that the people will see) no fewer than 1,000 inveterate kulaks, the rich ones… seize their grain, take hostages… Make sure that people hear about it one hundred versts around and tremble from fear…’ (Lenin, 1918.)
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