"When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself."

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"In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings."

Emotional

"There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past."

Old

"Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination."

War

"Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve."

Fact

"People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War."

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"The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart."

Poetry

"I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months."

Journalism

"The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it."

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"In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this."

Government

"In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated."

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