Magnetic Mountain Quotes

“The plenum concluded with a tribute dashed off to Stalin in which the participants exclaimed, “we cannot express in words the full force of our love for you,” and pledged their readiness to “meet the enemy.”4 The officials who made this vow of absolute loyalty did not know it then, but as it turned out, they were the enemy.”
― Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization