“One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed to Bolshevism, as much as to the Church of Rome.”

— Bertrand Russell

Part I, Ch. 9: International Policy
1920s, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (1920)

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