The Kremlin’s Greatest Worry.

In its open and implacable war on “revisionism” the Kremlin hierarchy is betraying its fear of the centrifugal forces within its slave empire

In relation to Soviet Russia, one Biblical injunction is nowadays being carried out—in reverse—with masochistic zeal. We see the mote in our own eye but resolutely refuse to see the beam in the Soviet eye. This Christian forbearance is the more remarkable in view of the fact that the Kremlin itself, far from concealing the foreign body, is openly squirming and yelling with pain. The Soviet press, speeches, broadcasts continually proclaim that it is the “main danger,” the “greatest threat,” and summon the faithful to extirpate it.

In its open and implacable war on “revisionism” the Kremlin hierarchy is betraying its fear of the centrifugal forces within its slave empire

In relation to Soviet Russia, one Biblical injunction is nowadays being carried out—in reverse—with masochistic zeal. We see the mote in our own eye but resolutely refuse to see the beam in the Soviet eye. This Christian forbearance is the more remarkable in view of the fact that the Kremlin itself, far from concealing the foreign body, is openly squirming and yelling with pain. The Soviet press, speeches, broadcasts continually proclaim that it is the “main danger,” the “greatest threat,” and summon the faithful to extirpate it.