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“Across the world academics still clung to the words and ideas of Marx and Engels and even Lenin. Fools. There were even those who said that Communism had been tried in the wrong country; that Russia had been too far backward to make those wonderful ideas work.”
“My arms are up to my elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul.”
“Whether the Soviet Union was an empire or not—the debate on this still continues—it died the death of an empire, splitting along lines roughly defined by ethnic and linguistic boundaries.”
“In 1944, investigator, proud of his faultless logic [...] told Babitsh: "Investigation and the process are merely juridical figuration, that can't change your destiny, which has been determined before. If it is necessary to shoot you, you'll be shot, even if you're completely innocent."”
“We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.”
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La Unión Soviética, oficialmente la Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas (URSS), fue un país transcontinental que abarcó gran parte de Eurasia desde su formación en 1922 hasta su disolución en 1991. Fue el tercer país más poblado del mundo, el más grande por área y limitaba con otros doce países. Un estado multinacional diverso, se organizó como una unión federal de repúblicas nacionales, siendo la más grande y poblada la República Socialista Federativa Soviética de Rusia (RSFSR). El estado comunista insignia del mundo, fue gobernado por el Partido Comunista bajo el marxismo-leninismo, a través de consejos soviéticos. La economía soviética también estaba planificada centralmente. Su capital y ciudad más grande era Moscú.
