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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “To witness the destruction of a man’s mind, under such conditions, was terrible.”

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To witness the destruction of a man’s mind, under such conditions, was terrible.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin reflects on the horror of seeing a person's mind destroyed by the conditions of imprisonment.

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