66T HAVE deceived myself.
It is true that multitudes of oppressed had to be liberated, but our method has produced other oppressions and horrible massacres. You know that my mortal nightmare is that I feel that I am lost in an ocean of blood of innumerable victims.
To save our Russia, what we needed,—but it is too late to turn back—were ten men like Francis of Assissi.
Ten such men and we would really have saved Russia..."
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