Looking back, it is amazing that the unanimous support that had sustained me in my battle against the Soviet Dragon—the support of the Western press and Western society, and even from within the Soviet Union—that incredible and unjustified groundswell that lifted me, had been triggered by a mutual lack of understanding. I, in fact, suited the all-powerful opinion of the Western political and intellectual elite as little as I did the Soviet rulers, or indeed the Soviet pseudo-intellectuals.
