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Russia’s Dark Past

“The world remains inexplicably indifferent and uncurious” about the deadly nature of Communism, writes Claire Berlinski. “For evidence of this indifference, consider the unread Soviet archives.”
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“Communism led … inexorably, everywhere on the globe where it was applied, to starvation, torture, and slave-labor camps,” writes Claire Berlinski. “Nor is it widely acknowledged that Communism was responsible for the deaths of some 150 million human beings during the twentieth century. The world remains inexplicably indifferent and uncurious about the deadliest ideology in history. For evidence of this indifference, consider the unread Soviet archives.”

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