And he would know. This is from a letter to the Editor of the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2020:
I spent half of my life in the ex-USSR, as a researcher at the Academy of Sciences. I lived through the Great Terror, and my experience allows me to see the inevitable consequences of today’s onslaught on the institutions of the American Republic: its irreparable destruction.
Starting in the later 19th century, Russia’s cultural and business elites supported the revolutionary movement, and the enormous social pressure to topple the czarist regime greatly facilitated the victory of the Bolsheviks in 1917. Officially, the ex-Soviet Union was a country of the proletarian dictatorship, yet there was never even one proletarian, i.e., a factory worker, in the Soviet government.
The crowd advancing on us is not about upholding any minority rights — it is a crowd of zeros wanting unaccountable power. And the only barrier between them and us is President Trump.
The author is Emeritus Professor Igor Melcuk at the University of Montreal.
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