“Sakharov in the Cold War year 1968 boldly wrote – in a book published in the West and widely distributed in samizdat in the USSR – “Freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of peoples by the mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorships.”

“Sakharov in the Cold War year 1968 boldly wrote – in a book published in the West and widely distributed in samizdat in the USSR – “Freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of peoples by the mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorships.”

— Carl Sagan