John Lewis Gaddis Quote

Soviet leaders had to treat the outside world as hostile because this provided the only excuse for the dictatorship without which they did not know how to rule, for cruelties they did not dare not to inflict, for sacrifices they felt bound to demand.

John Lewis Gaddis

Soviet leaders had to treat the outside world as hostile because this provided the only excuse for the dictatorship without which they did not know how to rule, for cruelties they did not dare not to inflict, for sacrifices they felt bound to demand.

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