p Everybody who cares about the future of mankind must have carefully read the draft Programme of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and now each one of us speaks of this historical document in his own words.
p Being a writer who is obliged to think in images, I should like to say: “In the old days it was like this: if you, a wayfarer, were overtaken by nightfall on the road and saw a glimmer of a shepherd’s fire far, far away on the horizon, you knew that it was so far to go, you’d fall dead from weariness before you reached it. ...”
p Now, the draft Programme makes such a bright beacon of light for all of us that all we have to do is go towards it with a firm stride, and the way won’t be so very long. .. . The going will be a bit hard, of course, but is a cherished goal ever easy to attain?
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