1941 Odessa Massacre/massacres of October 22-24

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    It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
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    Especially when the October wind
    With frosty fingers punishes my hair,
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