[Das Outsider]

It is something of a joke--and a truism--today that Ukrainians are very tough, fierce people. Surviving Hitler, Stalin, and the fallout of the U.S.S.R., I'd have to agree.

These things need to be brought to light. To us, the sheer multitudes slaughtered in the name of State-as-God in the first half of the last century are almost unimaginable, except in the cushy and impersonal realm of numbers and figures.

[Pelham]

“These things need to be brought to light. To us, the sheer multitudes slaughtered in the name of State-as-God in the first half of the last century are almost unimaginable, except in the cushy and impersonal realm of numbers and figures.”

You’ll find these Soviet crimes well described in the books of Robert Conquest.