For more than fifty years, the West’s liberal intellectuals have proclaimed
their love for mankind, while being bored by the rivers of blood pouring out of
the Soviet Union. Professing their compassion for human suffering, they have
none for the victims in Russia. Unable or unwilling to give up their faith in
collectivism, they evade the existence of Soviet atrocities, of terror, secret
police and concentration camps—and publish glowing tributes to Soviet
technology, production and art. Posturing as humanitarians, they man the
barricades to fight the “injustice,” “exploitation,” “repression,” and
“persecution” they claim to find in America; as to the full reality of
such things in Russia, they keep silent.