Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly?
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Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.
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Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
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It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
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The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an unkno...
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Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
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What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle (On suppression of freedom for Jews in the USSR)
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Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
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A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.
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If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
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The Soviet Union would remain a one-party nation even if an opposition party were permitted-because everyone would join that party.
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