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I suppose I'm beginning to understand the feelings of Soviet people when they build something, when they're driven by a single idea and it works out. They see successes, the results of their shared labor. Before their eyes, the state grows stronger, reinforces its position on the world stage. It starts to be taken seriously.

I also understand the fear that at some point a traitor will turn up in the collective and sell the country to the Western enemy, or allow a pointless civil revolution inside the state, leaving the country with its ass hanging out in the end.

And, I suppose, I'm even starting to understand the feeling of Soviet unity with the tsar at its head. And the first thing required of the tsar, as I see it, is not to betray the labor of his fellow citizens, measured in decades.

I would very much hate for Russia, rising from its knees with such an incredible creak, to once again allow itself a "leg-through" and throw the match on a fix because of some pro-Western rat bought for a handful of coins.

Arthur O'Harra.