Quotable notes

"Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50 million deaths, and Hitler for a mere 25 million. What Hitler did in his concentration camps was equaled if not exceeded in foulness by the Soviet gulags, forced starvation and pogroms.

"What makes the achievements of communist Russia so special and different that you can simper around in a 'CCCP' T-shirt, while anyone demented enough to wear anything commemorating the Third Reich would be speedily banged away under the 1986 Public Order Act?"

- Boris Johnson, member of Parliament for Henley and editor of The Spectator, writing in the Telegraph of London on June 30.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, August 14, 2005, No. 33, Vol. LXXIII

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