More on Soviet Russia from "The Charm School" "Even as he spoke, - TopicsExpress



          

More on Soviet Russia from "The Charm School" "Even as he spoke, Hollis realized that the farm questions were partly metaphor. What the average Russian feared, above all else, was BESPORYADOK - chaos, a world without order, a state without a powerful VOZHD, without a Stalin, a czar-father to look after them. The ancestral memory of such times of disorder, famine, civil war, and social disintegration was strong. They were willing to swap freedom for security. The next step was believing what the government implied: Slavery was freedom."
Posted on: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 00:07:35 +0000

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