Monday 27 January 2014

ASSIGNMENT 3 A FOOTNOTE FROM

I think this is a great observation from the great Soviet writer Vasily Grossman:

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“Dozens, perhaps hundreds of … teachings, creeds and programmes came as suitors to the young Russia who had cast off the chains of tsarism. As they paraded before her, the advocates of progress gazed passionately and pleadingly into her face … Invisible threads bound these men to the ideals of Western parliaments and constitutional monarchies … But the slave girl’s gaze, the great slave girl’s searching, doubting, evaluating gaze came to rest on Lenin! It was him she chose … In February 1917 the path of freedom lay open for Russia, but Russia chose Lenin … The debate opened by the supporters of Russian freedom was ended. Russian slavery had once more proved invincible …”




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