Robert Conquest Quotes
Nowadays, we seldom remember that the totalitarianism that emerged early this century was thought to embody, above all, modernity and technology.
Robert Conquest, Historian, "Totalitarianism and Technology," Forbes, December 2, 1996
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The war in Europe had ended in victory and the British people were looking for a better standard of living after their wartime privation. Churchill represented the class system, the Empire, and bellicose leadership and didn’t temper his approach to the peace that he had won. He made this blunder and associated the Labor Party and their social welfare state with a coming Gestapo—the name of the Nazi secret police. It was all over the top and the Conservative Party was trounced at the polls. He would be elected Prime Minister a decade later.
Despite the fact that many Americans saw communists and socialists as of the same ilk, socialists were very suspicious of communists—especially the “party discipline” and the lack of individual freedom, while the communists saw the socialists as just another form of fascism and attacked it violently. Later, the party line against socialists softened as Cold War communist strategy solicited assistance from the socialist, unaligned nations.
George Robert Acworth Conquest CMG OBE FBA FRSL was a British historian and poet.
