The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What about some more details? Why should you want more details? Well, then, if that’s the way you want it; but they will only be more frightening. They were all acting under orders from the French General Staff. After all, France doesn’t have enough worries, or difficulties, or party conflicts of its own, and it is enough just to whistle, and, lo and behold, divisions will march. . . . Intervention! First they planned it for 1928. But they couldn’t come to an agreement, they couldn’t tie up all the loose ends. All right, so they postponed it to 1930. But once more they couldn’t agree among themselves. All right, 1931 then.