Do Not Be Misled By The Fact

First You Destroy Those Who Create Values. Then You Destroy Those Who Know What The Values Are, And Who Also Know That Those Destroyed Before Were In Fact The Creators Of Values. But Real Barbarism Begins When No One Can Any Longer Judge Or Know That What He Does Is Barbaric.

In Order To Feel Contempt, You Generally Need To Cherish Some Kind Of Feelings.

A Journey, After All, Neither Begins In The Instant We Set Out, Nor Ends When We Have Reached Our Door Step Once Again. It Starts Much Earlier And Is Really Never Over, Because The Film Of Memory Continues Running On Inside Of Us Long After We Have Come To A Physical Standstill. Indeed, There Exists Something Like A Contagion Of Travel, And The Disease Is Essentially Incurable.

Do Not Be Misled By The Fact That You Are At Liberty And Relatively Free; That For The Moment You Are Not Under Lock And Key: You Have Simply Been Granted A Reprieve.

In Modern Russia, You Have No Official, Formal Assessment Of This Past. Nobody In Any Russian Document Has Said That The Policy Of The Soviet Government Was Criminal, That It Was Terrible. No One Has Ever Said This.