Adam Balshan’s Reviews > Breaking with Moscow > Status Update

Plain truth is the most effective weapon against the falsehoods on which the Soviet system is built, the myths about itself it has been all too successful in spreading around the world. Truth is also the one force that can dispel the secrecy behind which the Soviet leaders hide the reality of their system and their intentions.

my country had lost its dynamism and creative spirit. Its long slide into economic, cultural, and intellectual squalor had still not ended. No splendor of marble or bronze embellishment over the doors of bureaucracy could hide the fact that our government conducted a funerary homage to a dead philosophy as surely as the cemetery celebrated the physically dead.