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Quotes from Confessions of a Too Much Man — Alexander Zinoviev

1922–2006 Russia

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Every war reveals in one way or another the fundamental characteristics of the societies involved in it. p.196

Confessions of a Too Much Man (1990)

Thus, the West perceives its own smallness, reflected in the curved mirror of Soviet society, as a grandiose phenomenon p. 598

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Any fool can assert himself at the expense of the past.p 339

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The problem with slavery is not why people are forced to become slaves, but why they allow themselves to be enslaved. p. 67

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The truth is now the lot of the loner with, unfortunately, very limited means of disseminating their ideas and influencing the masses. p. 695

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The problem is no longer how to build paradise on Earth, but how to live there. p. 424

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Stalin is not the creator of Russian tragedy, he was only its expression. p. 340

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The propaganda apparatus of Stalin and Brezhnev seems, in comparison [to the media lie], a game of amateur forgers. p. 695

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One of the reasons for the rather low intellectual level of essays which criticize Soviet society and denounce its scourges is precisely poor ideological education. p. 638

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Nothing takes root so well in people's minds as misconceptions that become prejudices. Ignorance is strength ! p. 673

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The thirties were the darkest and at the same time the most optimistic period in Soviet history. p. 99

Confessions of a Too Much Man (1990)

In reality, Orwell did not predict the future post-capitalist society, but simply expressed as no one had done before the West's fear of communism. p. 672

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By transforming Marxism into an official ideology, dialectics had no longer been made an instrument of knowledge of complex realities, but a means of stupefication and ideological fraud. p. 324

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While considering communalism as a universal phenomenon, I emphasized that only communist society was totally governed according to the laws of communality. p 424

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The world once again finds itself faced with crazy temptations and crazy seductions. […] Be afraid of those who seduce you because seducers always deceive! p. 696

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alexander Zinoviev (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.