The imagination and spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evil doers stopped short at a dozen corpses

because they had no ideology.

Ideology, that is what gives evil doing its long sought justification and gives the evil doer 

If only if it were all so simple, if only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds,

and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us, and destroy them

but the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being

and who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart.

1937 was needed to show how little their ideology was worth.

That ideology of which they boasted so enthusiastically

turning Russia upside down, destroying its foundations,trampling everything it held sacred underfoot

That Russia where they themselves had never been threatened with such retribution.

Bluecaps, integrators,  in their daily life were possessed 

You had the power of arrest.  Ordinary citizens are mere blocks of wood. You were always right. 

Anything you saw was yours, any apartment, any women was yours, any enemy was struck from your path.

One and the same human being is at various ages and under various circumstances

a totally different human being.

At times he is close to being a devil, at times to sainthood, but his name doesn't change

and to that name we ascribe the whole lot of good and evil.

During the life of any heart, this line dividing good and evil keeps changing place,

sometimes it is squeezed one way by exuberant evil

and sometimes it shifts to allow enough space for good to flourish.

The agents of the inquisition invoked Christianity, conquerors of foreign lands extolled the virtue

on their motherland, the colonizers, civilization,  the Nazi's, race, 

Thanks to ideology the 20th century was fated to experience evil doing calculated in the millions.

The majority of those in power, up to the moment of their own arrest, 

were pitiless in arresting others, obediently destroyed their peers 

and handed over to retribution their friends  and comrades of arms of yesterday.

All the big Bolsheviks were executioners of other Bolsheviks along with millions of non-communists.

One thing is definitely clear, not everything that enters our ears, penetrates our consciousness.

Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost.

To do evil, the human being must first of all believe that what he is doing is good

or a well considered act in conformity with natural law.

Humans need a justification for evil on a vast scale.

Bluecaps, interrogators, were judged on the total arrests and confessions they extracted

Low totals led to them being kicked out. Stalin could never believe he had no enemies in a district.

That is why they felt no mercy and an explosion of rage toward prisoners who didn't capitulate.

Socrates told us "know thyself"

Confronted by the pit into which we are about to toss those who have done us harm

we halt stricken dumb.  It's after all only because of the way things worked out, 

that they were the executioners and we weren't.

The victims of the Bosheviks never conducted themselves so despicably as the leading Bolsheviks

when the lightening struck them.