"The Western misreading of the Soviet system was largely the product of a simple reflex. ... Whatever its doubtless temporary — or invented — faults (so the thinking went), the Soviet ideology stood for a better world. ... [E]ven Romain Rolland, the sensitive follower of Gandhi, spoke out in defense of the purges."
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Robert Conquest, "The Terrors", in The Atlantic Monthly (July-August 2004)
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Romain Rolland
1866 – 1944
französischer Schriftsteller
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