This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever.
I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't.
The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.
The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
I was part of a generation that believed in socialism and finally found that belief corroded and destroyed. That is not renouncing Communism or socialism. It's reaching a certain degree of enlightenment about what the Soviet Union practices.
Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.
Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.
I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.