The root cause of our blunders in foreign policy is our failure to understand the Soviet “way of life.” Our diplomats and journalists rarely learn the truth about Russia, however many years they spend there, because they are not themselves subject to the terrible compulsions which make the peoples of the Communist Empire suffer in silence, and respond to inquiries by foreigners with a forced smile and lying accounts of their “happy lives” in the “Workers’ Paradise.” Hence the great value of the few books written by articulate and informed escapees from behind the Iron Curtain.
Colonel Tokaev’s story
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