On political matters basically the best, though not infallible, source is rumour at a high political or police level. - Robert Conquest

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On political matters basically the best, though not infallible, source is rumour at a high political or police level.

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About Robert Conquest

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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