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Poor man: history will never forgive him for proposing Ceausescu as the new general secretary of the party on the death, in 1965, of Gheorghiu-Dej.
The Life and Evil Times of Nicolae Ceausescu (1991)
North Korea is an abomination to man as a freethinking individual.
The Life and Evil Times of Nicolae Ceausescu (1991)
Russian soldiers eat the best possible nutritious rations of any military, so long as it's dog food.
Killer in the Kremlin (2022)
To write anything about Ceausescu without discussing his secret police is like Hamlet without the Prince, everybody else and the skull.
The Life and Evil Times of Nicolae Ceausescu (1991)
Paranoia is what ex-KGB spies do instead of playing golf.
Killer in the Kremlin (2022)
I look like an exploding tomato and shout like a jet engine and every time I see it, it makes me cringe.
How Putin must have hated him. Navalny was the tsar of charisma, courage and connecting with people; Putin the tsar of the knout, the cosh and the hypodermic syringe.
Murder in the Gulag (2024)
Unlike Shoigu and Gerasimov and, don't even whisper it, Putin himself, Prigozhin would go to the front line and be seen taking risks.
Murder in the Gulag (2024)
Squealer in Animal Farm but without the charm.
Killer in the Kremlin (2022)
This is a horror story – a true one – about a monster who came to be president of a country.
The Life and Evil Times of Nicolae Ceausescu (1991)
One of my political heroes is the former head of the IRA Martin McGuinness.
That Putin ends up poisoning himself is an ending fit for Shakespeare.
Fortune, turn thy wheel.
Killer in the Kremlin (2022)
I say it to my Ukrainian friends again and again: there is another Russia. The problem is that the alternatives to Vladimir Putin are either dead or not very alive.
Killer in the Kremlin (2022)
In Ceausescu's Romania madness was enthroned, sanity a disease.
The Life and Evil Times of Nicolae Ceausescu (1991)
One Chechen view was: 'If we had wanted to bomb Moscow, we would have blown up the Kremlin or a nuclear power station. Why should we blow up a couple of blocks of flats?'
Killer in the Kremlin (2022)
Andrei, easily the most intelligent and sophisticated of the long-lasting sycophants, could well have behaved decently – in return for what favours one can only guess. Perhaps he was genuinely a good man. Perhaps.
The Life and Evil Times of Nicolae Ceausescu (1991)
The break-up of the European Union is a Kremlin goal and Brexit was a great Kremlin success.
Killer in the Kremlin (2022)
It's his [Dmitry Peskov's] standard patter: ironically raise the possibility that the killings had something to do with his boss, then deny it, leaving both versions to drift like tumbleweed in the wind.
Murder in the Gulag (2024)
Life inside the Kremlin must be extraordinarily unpleasant. The riches to be stolen are off the scale, but the consequences of failure are horrible too. And all the time the others are watching you, waiting for you to make a mistake.
Murder in the Gulag (2024)
It enjoyed the material and spiritual backing of the German Nazis and the Fascists under Mussolini, and combined Jew-baiting with apocalyptical orthodoxy, appeals to Romanian nationalism with a samurai's reverence for violent death and suicide.
The Life and Evil Times of Nicolae Ceausescu (1991)