Born in 1921 – Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and academic.

“Stalinism exhibited a much more subtle kind of hypocrisy and demagogy, with reliance not on an openly cannibalistic program like Hitler’s but on a progressive, scientific, and popular socialist ideology.
This served as a convenient screen for deceiving the working class, for weakening the vigilance of the intellectuals and other rivals in the struggle for power, with the treacherous and sudden use of the machinery of torture, execution, and informants, intimidating and making fools of millions of people, the majority of whom were neither cowards nor fools. As a consequence of this ‘specific fea­ture’ of Stalinism, it was the Soviet people, its most active, talented, and honest representatives, who suffered the most terrible blow.”

Also: Albrecht Dürer