Next Stop Execution Quotes

“Shatov stared at me and said, ‘Old boy, you don’t understand. A member of the Politburo who can speak for forty minutes without notes — he must be a genius!”
― Oleg Gordievsky, Next Stop Execution: The Autobiography of Oleg Gordievsky

“But what a language this was! For a foreigner, English is like a huge building which one has to get to know and, as somebody remarked, the closer you come to it, the taller and more daunting it appears. (One sign of its sheer size was that my best two-volume English—Russian dictionary contained 160,000 entries, compared with only 60,000 in a French—Russian dictionary of similar scope.)”
― Oleg Gordievsky, Next Stop Execution: The Autobiography of Oleg Gordievsky