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Masha Gessen quotes: They had had about enough time to get their bearings and blow up one train when they ran out of food supplies.

They had had about enough time to get their bearings and blow up one train when they ran out of food supplies.

Masha Gessen quotes: It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.

It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.

Masha Gessen quotes: Rigidity is always the opposite of the search for truth.

Rigidity is always the opposite of the search for truth.

Masha Gessen quotes: Putin needed an enemy, an Other, against which to mobilize. LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent.

Putin needed an enemy, an Other, against which to mobilize. LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent.

Masha Gessen quotes: Half of the population is behind bars and the other half is guarding them,' Russians have said of their country since the times of Stalin.

Half of the population is behind bars and the other half is guarding them,' Russians have said of their country since the times of Stalin.

Masha Gessen quotes: When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.

When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.

Masha Gessen quotes: When you're part of the opposition you want to stay. It's part of your identity. You're useless if you leave. You feel like you have failed.

When you're part of the opposition you want to stay. It's part of your identity. You're useless if you leave. You feel like you have failed.

Masha Gessen quotes: Angleterre Hotel,

Angleterre Hotel,

Masha Gessen quotes: But if one examines the fine shades of postwar Soviet poverty,

But if one examines the fine shades of postwar Soviet poverty,

Masha Gessen quotes: It's not natural for people in the opposition to leave. It's always a personal catastrophe.

It's not natural for people in the opposition to leave. It's always a personal catastrophe.

Masha Gessen quotes: such as first-grader Vladimir's sporting a wristwatch,

such as first-grader Vladimir's sporting a wristwatch,

Masha Gessen quotes: The ability to discuss things was still the most highly valued commodity in the Soviet Union.

The ability to discuss things was still the most highly valued commodity in the Soviet Union.

Masha Gessen quotes: To create, and to confront, one has to be an outcast.

To create, and to confront, one has to be an outcast.

Masha Gessen quotes: The people who came were not always the ones who most needed to escape: they were the ones most capable of escaping.

The people who came were not always the ones who most needed to escape: they were the ones most capable of escaping.

Masha Gessen quotes: Are you putting on airs?

Are you putting on airs?

Masha Gessen quotes: No one is easier to manipulate than a man who exaggerates his own influence.

No one is easier to manipulate than a man who exaggerates his own influence.

Masha Gessen quotes: As a gay parent I must flee Russia or lose my children

As a gay parent I must flee Russia or lose my children