Source: Quillette
by Ron Capshaw
“William F. Buckley once observed that, without the powerful apparatus of the state at his disposal, Adolf Hitler would have been merely a ‘street corner racist.’ In this excellent and wonderfully compact book, historian William Nester makes the similar observation that Joseph Stalin would have been little more than a sadistic village bandit without the might of the communist dictatorship at his command.” (10/25/25)