Quote #1

'Ideology in the Soviet Union is both dead, and very much alive! Dead at the level of faith; alive as an indispensable rationale of policy.' [citation needed]

More from Milovan Djilas

  1. 'It is a much more formidable and difficult task to relate a historical tragedy than to take part in it.' [citation needed]
  2. 'Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.' [citation needed]
  3. 'The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist…
  4. 'The hardest thing about being a communist is trying to predict the past.' [citation needed]

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