“The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.”
David Remnick“The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.”
David Remnick“The battle over society—its direction, its temper, its organization, its character—is often played out on the square. But the battle rarely ends; it does not easily resolve [David Remnick, "Geopolitics: Strength in Numbers"].”
Catie Marron, City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World“The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.”
David Remnick, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire