“On political matters basically the best, though not infallible, source is rumor …”

— Robert Conquest

From Grover Furr on Robert Conquest http://www.stalinsociety.org/2015/08/05/grover-furr-on-robert-conquest/ at stalinsociety.org',' 2015/08/05

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poet and historian from England and the United States 1917–2015

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