Unbelievers

If there were a Thomas Aquinas among us, his talents would be needed to supply irrefutable proofs of the Soviet Union’s existence. A great many people seem unable to believe it’s really there.

The unbelievers, in fact, tend to dominate the mass media—or did, before Afghanistan. A man who had spent the last decade glued to his TV set would never have supposed the Soviets were engaged in an enormous military buildup, still less that any use would be found for all those weapons.