...the political class of Western society reminded me in a striking way of what I had had the opportunity to observe for several years, as in the lab… - Alexander Zinoviev

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...the political class of Western society reminded me in a striking way of what I had had the opportunity to observe for several years, as in the laboratory, in Soviet Russia. It's a bit as if Soviet society had divulged secrets that remain hidden in Western society and that are not spoken out loud. p. 161