“Russia has always respected the bravery and heroism of the Polish people, soldiers and officers, who stood up first against Nazism in 1939.”
On the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II, 1 September 2009 https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/world/europe/02russia.html
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Reacting to Tony Benn's speech that "the flag hoisted at Wolverhampton [Powell's constituency] is beginning to look like the one that fluttered over Dachau and Belsen" (3 June 1970), from Simon Heffer, Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell (Phoenix, 1999), p. 556.
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“Fascism, Nazism, and Communism are all Collectivism. In this respect they are all alike.”
Dorothy Thompson’s Political Guide: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
Source: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
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Source: They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-35 (1955), p. 219
Hansard, HC Dec 21 May 1946 vol 423 c64W