‘I tried to help them, but my strength gave out’. For half a century, Nina Litvinova stood with Soviet and then Russian political prisoners. In May, at 80, she took her own life. — Meduza

Maxim Litvinov on totalitarism

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Maxim Litvinov on totalitarism

"A few days later, in January 1952, The Washington Post published an interview Litvinov had given to the CBS correspondent Richard Hottelet. Litvinov warned the West that the Soviet leadership could not be trusted, that concessions would lead only to fresh demands. He said that citizens cannot change a totalitarian state from within: the Italians under fascism and the Germans under National Socialism had not even tried to rebel"

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