MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti commentator Dmitry...
democracy in his Harvard lecture.The Western media often quoted John Paul II at the beginning of his papacy, when he mostly criticized the communist regime in Poland and other Soviet bloc countries. But when late in his life he turned his wrath on capitalism and its irresponsible way of life, his criticism was either disregarded or provoked evil attacks against him.
When Solzhenitsyn remained a patriot of Russia even under Putin, the West stopped writing about him at all.
The only Russian the West still respects is Andrei Sakharov, an eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist, but that is only because he died in 1989. Given the current ideological intolerance in the United States and Western Europe, he and his convergence theory would have long been denounced.
In essence, the theory proposes that capitalism and communism - driven by the irresistible scientific and technological forces that control modern industrial
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