Moscow Trial
Sir,—Your editorial on the recent travesty of justice in Moscow did not emphasise how remarkable it was that Dr Litvinov’s statement should be freely available. Russia lost about 30 million killed and great material damage in fighting foreign invasions and interventions in less than two generations. Yet out of this agony has been built one of the greatest technological states, with hope that personal intellectual freedom will develop in the next decade. Minority opinions in any society have been and are persecuted to varying degrees and in different ways, though Anglo-Saxon democracy has always been able to modify extreme ideas to a workable compromise. The Soviets must be confident of the future for them to allow a form of freedom that has always been foreign to Russia. Personal freedom for all citizens will never be realised in a poverty-ridden community.—Yours, etc., PATRICK NEARY. January 21, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31584, 23 January 1968, Page 10
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