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A Stalin functionary admitted, "Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people, he said, were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason.

— Paul Johnson Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1980s (1983)

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