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“By the 1970s, she had come to the realization, in her words, “that what we thought was socialism was fatally flawed.”
― Ben Macintyre, Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

“Poliakova had told them not to answer questions, so when the little man angrily demanded that he identify himself, Foote looked down on the ranting blob of officialdom and told him, slowly and precisely, to “Fuck off.” The little KGB man scribbled in his notebook. The contretemps was sorted out by means of a single phone call and Foote and his minder returned to the flat, but the incident left a permanent misunderstanding: whenever Foote went out for a walk the militiamen cordially greeted him as “Comrade Fuckof.”
― Ben Macintyre, Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

“Signing off on the daily execution lists, Stalin was heard to remark: “Who is going to remember this riffraff in ten, twenty years’ time? No one.”
― Ben Macintyre, Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

“It was a small flat, a sitting room, bedroom, bathroom and kitchen, and it was an example of how careless people can be when they live alone,”
― Arnaldur Indriðason, Jar City