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Isaac Deutscher Quotes

1907–1967 Poland

Isaac Deutscher (3 April 1907 – 19 August 1967) was a Polish-born Marxist writer, journalist and political activist who moved to the United Kingdom at the outbreak of World War II. He is best remembered as a biographer of Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin and as a commentator on Soviet and Jewish affairs.

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The ex-communist is the problem child of contemporary politics.

To justify or condone Israel's wars against the Arabs is to render Israel a very bad service indeed and to harm its own long-term interest. Israel's security, let me repeat, was not enhanced by the wars of 1956 and 1967; it was undermined and compromised by them.

[Stalin] had found Russia working with wooden ploughs and leaving it equipped with atomic piles.

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