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Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Quotes: Other forces were at work besides conformism. But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.
         

Other forces were at work besides conformism. But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.


Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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