Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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