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Seymour Hersh

I came out of a lower-middle-class background. At that time, everyone used to define themselves: Stalinist, Maoist, whatever. I thought they meant ‘miaowist’. Seriously! Something to do with cats.

– Seymour Hersh

Mikhail Baryshnikov

My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don’t know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.

– Mikhail Baryshnikov

Michelle Dockery

It’s a bit of a history lesson, being an actor. I was in ‘Burnt By The Sun’ at the National, which was set in Stalinist Russia, so I discovered all about that. You learn so much as you go along.

– Michelle Dockery

Keith Gessen

In the post-Soviet era, the most interesting work on the Stalinist period has been social history, far beyond the Kremlin walls – the study of what one of its leading practitioners, Sheila Fitzpatrick, in her book ‘Everyday Stalinism,’ called ‘ordinary life in extraordinary times.’

– Keith Gessen

Jonathan King

My YouTube videos have literally millions of views… Yet I’m still airbrushed out of the BBC Stalinist revision of history; the chart shows have been instructed not to play my music!

– Jonathan King

Imre Kertesz

I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.

– Imre Kertesz

George F Kennan

The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

– George F Kennan

Edmund White

Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.

– Edmund White

Andy Grove

I wasn’t cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.

– Andy Grove

Amor Towles

We study, as Americans, the extreme aspects of repression under the Stalinist era. We’re focused on them. The vast majority of Russian citizens, it was a much softer type of being disconcerted.

– Amor Towles

Alexander Dubcek

Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions.

– Alexander Dubcek

Death Rick Wilson

Trump, like any good Stalinist, knows that one death is a tragedy but 100,000 is a statistic.

– Rick Wilson

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