The mere description of the world, sincere and truthful, had an electrifying effect on people’s souls: discovering the richness of human experience, bringing back to the memory long-forgotten facts, the old ideas being revived and restored to their former nobility, recognizing a variety of styles and forms of expression, all of these awakened people from their ideological slumber. Many of them also understood that their newly rediscovered desire to see the world as it was needed to be preceded by the cleaning away of all the contaminating dirt that the decades of ideology had left on their
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