“Enemies are right in front of you, you are at war with them, then you make an armistice with them, and all is clear. A traitor must be destroyed, crushed.”

In 2001, speaking to journalist Aleksoi Venediktov, to whom he added “You know, Aleksei, you are not a traitor. You are an enemy.” David Remnick, “ Echo in the Dark http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/09/22/echo-in-the-dark,” in The New Yorker, September 22, 2008.
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