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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Peace, War, Lying
Nobel lecture as quoted in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, 1974.
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.