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On political matters basically the best, though not infallible, source is rumor …
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You made a point about proof. In this sort of history we do nt have proof... Yet... the incontrovertibility of the evidence can be plain even when it is not documentary or complete.
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Truth can thus only percolate in the form of hearsay.
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Yet would we die as some have done: Beating a way for the rising sun.
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Born:
July 15, 1917
Died:
August 3, 2015
(aged 98)
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George Robert Acworth Conquest was a British-American historian and poet, notable for his influential works on Soviet history including The Great Terror: Stalin's Purges of the 1930s.
Known for:
The Great Terror (1968)
The Harvest of Sorrow (1986)
Stalin (1991)
Reflections on a ravaged century (1999)
The Dragons of Expectation (2005)
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