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- W2335255190 abstract "AFTER being away from England for three and a half years, I have found the fortnight spent in London extraordinarily revealing. I have found that people's reactions to Russia at the present juncture fall roughly into four categories. First, the complete negativists, among whom I would include Mr. Muggeridge2 and Mr. Arthur Koestler;3 then there is the large mass of pro-Russian sentiment among those people who will never quite forget all that we owe the Russians in winning this war, but who today are subdued, puzzled, and even silenced by the pessimists. Thirdly, there are those who either rely on the Big Three again getting together, or who are already prepared to write off Eastern Europe as a dead loss and reconcile themselves to the co-existence of the Anglo-American and the Russian spheres of influence in Europe-which, in a sense, is also a counsel of despair. Finally, there are those, perhaps a minority, who still think that nothing is irretrievably lost, because there is still not enough evidence that the Russians intend, at any price and in any circumstances, to grab the whole of Eastern Europe, and turn Eastern Germany, Poland, Roumania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia into one great Wall of China. I am told that Koestler's influence among the left-wing intellectuals is great and disturbing, and the origin of many crises de conscience. I have read through a large part of his book, The Yogi and the Commissar, and I was not impressed. He explains everything, except one little thing: why the Russians under Stalin fought better than they had done in all their history. Let me take two examples from the book. First, the indignation with which he recalls that in 1940 or 1941 fourteen categories of Lithuanians were deported into the interior of the Soviet Union. Secondly, he ridicules the patriotic and nationalist propaganda of 1941-42 when, as he says, the Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov superseded the orders of Lenin and of the Red Banner, and there was an all-round glorification in Soviet propaganda of Russian nationalist traditions. In 1941 and 1942 Russia was waging as grim and fearful a struggle for survival as any nation has ever had to wage. It is something which Koestler somehow overlooks throughout the book. I do not know whether the figures he gives of the deportees from Lithuania are right or wrong; let us assume they are right. But let" @default.
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- W2335255190 title "The Outlook in the U.S.S.R." @default.
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