“The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.”
Azar Nafisi
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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