The Secret Is That When You've Been

We Didn't Love Freedom Enough.

In Every Life There Is One Particular Event That Is Decisive For The Entire Person-for His Fate, His Convictions, His Passions.

It Would Have Been Difficult To Design A Path Out Of Communism Worse Than The One That Has Been Followed.

I Hope That No One Present Will Suspect Me Of Offering My Personal Criticism Of The Western System To Present Socialism As An Alternative. Having Experienced Applied Socialism In A Country Where The Alternative Has Been Realized, I Certainly Will Not Speak For It. The Well-known Soviet Mathematician Shafarevich, A Member Of The Soviet Academy Of Science, Has Written A Brilliant Book Under The Title Socialism; It Is A Profound Analysis Showing That Socialism Of Any Type And Shade Leads To A Total Destruction Of The Human Spirit And To A Leveling Of Mankind Into Death.

If... If... We Didn't Love Freedom Enough. And Even More - We Had No Awareness Of The Real Situation. We Spent Ourselves In One Unrestrained Outburst In 1917, And Then We Hurried To Submit. We Submitted With Pleasure! ........... We Purely And Simply Deserved Everything That Happened Afterward.