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Amin Knew That Neither West Nor East Would Criticize Him For Fear That He Would Support The Other Side. He Felt He Was Untouchable And He Said So Openly.

In Poland A Man Must Be One Thing: White Or Black, Here Or There, With Us Or Against Us -- Clearly, Openly, Without Hesitations. . . . We Lack The Liberal, Democratic Tradition Rich In All Its Gradations. We Have Instead The Tradition Of Struggle: The Extreme Situation, The Final Gesture.

In A Society Of Little Economic Development, Universal Inactivity Accompanies Universal Poverty. You Survive Not By Struggling Against Nature, Or By Increasing Production, Or By Relentless Labor; Instead You Survive By Expending As Little Energy As Possible, By Striving Constantly To Achieve A State Of Immobility.

Our Salvation Is In Striving To Achieve What We Know We'll Never Achieve.

There Are Several Reasons Why Russians View The Oppressive State Positively. First, In The Russian Orthodox Religion, There Is An Understanding Of Authority As Something Sent By God.