Nikolay Vladimirovich Timofeev-Ressovsky. (№ 410223)

On the other hand, he was pessimistic about the prospect of establishing a democratic society in the Soviet Union, a country that, in his words, "suffered absolutely fantastic damage in the human intellect." He has a very gloomy foresight of 35 years ago, which is acutely relevant to this day: "Can you imagine what will happen if we suddenly have democracy? Indeed, the masses... they will be given the opportunity to arbitrarily. After all, it will be the dominance of the most demagogic bastions ... They will finish off any reasonable methods of management, loot everything that is possible, and then sell Russia in parts.