“enthusiasm for Communism in theory was characteristically present in inverse proportion to direct experience of it in practice.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Western intellectual enthusiasm for Communism tended to peak not in times of ‘goulash Communism’ or ‘Socialism with a human face’, but rather at the moments of the regime’s worst cruelties: 1935–39 and 1944–56. Writers, professors, artists, teachers and journalists frequently… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
