Boredom is indeed a pitiable condition. And the feeling of meaninglessness can be devastating. Still, to compensate by abandoning reason for ideology is a desperate remedy.
-- Robert Conquest

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#Davies & #Wheatcroft (2009)
> The Years of #Hunger: #Soviet #Agriculture, 1931–1933
> #RobertConquest, the most widely cited advocate of the view the #famine was man-made, has clarified his position on this matter and has clearly stated that although he thinks that the famine was caused by the #Bolsheviks, who engaged in criminally terroristic measures, he nevertheless does not think that it was consciously intended
https://books.google.fr/books?id=4s1lCwAAQBAJ&lpg=PR14&hl=fr&pg=PR16#v=onepage&q&f=false
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ah et on lit la page d'après une clarification possible de ce « quasi » :
> #RobertConquest, the most widely cited advocate of the view the #famine was man-made, has clarified his position on this matter and has clearly stated that although he thinks that the famine was caused by the #Bolsheviks, who engaged in criminally terroristic measures, he nevertheless does not think that it was consciously intended