"[O]ur great error was not a false admiration for Russia
but a snobbish feeling
that nothing which happened in a semi-barbarous country
which had experienced neither the Renaissance nor the Enlightenment
could be of any importance:
had any of the countries we knew personally,
like France, Germany or Italy, the language of which we could speak
and where we had personal friends,
been one to have a successful communist revolution
with the same phenomena of terror, purges, censorship etc,
we would have
SCREAMED OUR HEADS OFF"
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