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"Revelation" (1937), in The Idea of a Christian Society and Other Writings (London: Faber and Faber, 1982), p. 168
“Are they human beings? Ask from those who have flown through the fires of hell if the red-Russkies are humans! Our boys outright deny it!”
Cited in: Tuomas Tepora, The Finnish Civil War 1918: History, Memory, Legacy, 2014, p. 191
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