Perhaps the most ugly fact about this Russian policy of
wreckage is that it is pursued in the spirit of the old Russian autocracy at its worst moments. The difficulty of dealing with Russia in the old days was that Russian agents abroad were disavowed or acknowledged according as the results of their transactions were inconvenient or convenient. The Soviet lays on private persons the blame for sentiments which it is known to have inspired. There are no private persons in Russia who can get their speeches exported. But this is a small matter beside li the Soviet's habit of using so many aliases that one never knows what or who it is. The Soviet is the Com- intern one day and the Politbureau the next. What the difference is exactly between any one member of this trinity and the other. two, nobody has ever been able to discover.
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