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Stalin
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Los revolucionarios de antes buscaban transformar el ambiente social con la esperanza (cuando se trataba de idealistas y no de detentadores de poder) de cambiar la naturaleza humana. Los próximos revolucionarios concentrarán su ataque sobre la naturaleza humana tal la cual la encuentren, en las mentes y cuerpos de sus víctimas o, si lo prefieren de sus beneficiarios.
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― Si mi biblioteca ardiera esta noche. Ensayos sobre arte, música, literatura y otras drogas
― Si mi biblioteca ardiera esta noche. Ensayos sobre arte, música, literatura y otras drogas
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What people still do not like to admit is that there were two crimes in the form of one. Just as the destruction of Jewry was the necessary condition for the rise and expansion of Nazism, so the ethnic cleansing of Germans was a precondition for the Stalinization of Poland. I first noticed this point when reading an essay by the late Ernest Gellner, who at the end of the war had warned Eastern Europeans that collective punishment of Germans would put them under Stalin's tutelage indefinitely. Th
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― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
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This group has been created to discuss The Prophet of Sorrow. This novel is set against the poli…more
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From June 10th to August 10th, the editor and writers of Coming Unglued: Six Stories about Thing…more
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A book detailing the mass slaughter of 14 million innocent Europeans of various nationalities as…more
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