To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the env… - Robert Conquest

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To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.

Robert Conquest

Reflections on a Ravaged Century · March 17, 2001 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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George Robert Acworth Conquest (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was a British-American historian and poet known for his works on Soviet history, including The Great Terror: Stalin's Purges of the 1930s first published in 1968.

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Native Name: George Robert Acworth Conquest

Alternative Names: J. E. M. Arden • Ted Pauker

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To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault. - Robert Conquest

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