“We are exiting from communism in a most unfortunate and awkward way.”

—  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Interview with Joseph Pearce, Sr. (2003)
Context: We are exiting from communism in a most unfortunate and awkward way. It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed. Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme. The name of "reform" simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.

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