Soviet Socialist Republic

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    The tremendous outflow of intellectuals that formed such a prominent part of the general exodus from Soviet Russia in the first years of the Bolshevist Revolution seems today like the wanderings of some mythical tribe whose bird-signs and moon-signs I now retrieve from the desert dust.
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    Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
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    Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.
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