The authoritarians of today are also terror managers, and if anything they are rather more creative [than Hitler]. Consider the current Russian regime, so admired by the president. Vladimir Putin not only came to power in an incident that strikingly resembled the [German] Reichstag fire, he then used a series of terror attacks -- real, questionable, and fake -- to remove obstacles to total power in Russia and to assault democratic neighbors.
-- Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, p. 105
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