[Live free or die]

That’s it exactly. One of Stalin’s worst crimes and probably his least well known. While these people were dying in the millions we had reporters visiting Moscow and when they came back they’d say “I have seen the future and it works!”

[Verginius Rufus]

The late Ryszard Kapuscinski, who died in Jan. 2007, has an excellent treatment of the Ukrainian famine in his book Imperium.