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“ Part of the Maoist project was the deliberate construction of a new moral identity. To do this it was necessary to destroy people’s previous sense of who they were and to make sure there was no room for it grow back. ”

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Stalin’s Russia was a trap, in which even those running the system were caught. The leaders were trapped by fear of Stalin and even he was trapped by his fear of their desire to be rid of him. Everything he had to eat or drink had to be tasted by one of his colleagues first. Beria’s behavior at his death showed that his fear was only partly paranoia.

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Jonathan Glover Fear Russia Stalin Stalinism State Terrorism Totalitarianism

Sir Edward Grey echoed this: More than one true thing may be said about the causes of the war, but the statement that comprises most truth is that militarism and the armaments inseparable from it made war inevitable. Armaments were intended to produce a sense of security in each nation – that was the justification put forward in defence of them. What they really did was to produce fear in everybody.

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Jonathan Glover Arms Arms Race Fear Militarism War

o,In the decision to use the bomb the base line had shifted down during the moral slide from the blockade to the area bombing of Germany and to the fire-bombing of Japan. Predictably one member of Stimson’s committee made the point that the ‘number of people that would be killed by the bomb would not be greater in general magnitude than the number already killed in fire raids’.

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Jonathan Glover Atomic Bomb Hiroshima Killing Morality War

The hardest - the part that's hard is to kill, but once you kill, that becomes easier, to kill the next person and the next one and the next one. -Varnado Simpson, Charlie Company of My Lai

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Jonathan Glover Killing War