08/03/11 15:55:40
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A sickly light, like yellow tinfoil, was slanting over the high walls
into the jail yard. We were waiting outside the condemned cells,
a row of sheds fronted with double bars, like small animal cages.
Consider for instance some comfortable English professor defending Russian totalitarianism.
He cannot say outright, “I believe in killing off your opponents when you can get good results
by doing so.” Probably, therefore, he will say something like this:
While freely conceding that the Soviet regime exhibits certain features
which the humanitarian may be inclined to deplore, we must, I think,
agree that a certain curtailment of the right to political opposition
is an unavoidable concomitant of transitional periods, and that the rigors
which the Russian people have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified
in the sphere of concrete achievement.