“Stalin, of course, never went on trial, but his legacy did. In 1956, t...” — Simon Sebag Montefiore Quote

“Stalin, of course, never went on trial, but his legacy did. In 1956, three years after his death, he was denounced by Nikita Khrushchev. And his crimes were even more explicitly exposed by Mikhail Gorbachev during the late '80s. Yet to many, Stalin remains more legitimate as a Russian leader than anyone since.”

“A revolution resembles the death of a fading star, an exhilarating Technicolor explosion that gives way not to an ordered new galaxy but to a nebula, a formless cloud of shifting energy.”

“That's what 90 percent of the people talk about when they're first exposed to the fish.”

“The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.”

“A performer learns with experience and with age. I did not know the future when I left home and started out to begin my career: I started qawaali; then I met Peter Gabriel and was exposed to a lot of new ideas.”