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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - It is unthinkable in the...

It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that "past" which "ought not to be stirred up. (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that "past" which "ought not to be stirred up.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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