Author of quotes: Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich

Apparently, in every crisis, a turning point in the lives of the people there such as "Small People", all attitudes which are the OPPOSITE of the worldview of other people. For which all that has grown organically over the centuries, all the roots of the spiritual life of the nation, its religion, traditional political system, moral principles, way of life - all of it hostile, it seems funny and dirty prejudice requiring uncompromising eradication. Being cut off completely from the spiritual connection with the people, he looks at him only as the material and its treatment as a purely TECHNICAL problem, so its solution is not restricted by any moral standards, compassion or pity.

Student unrest was concentrated around the two main slogans. First of all, it is a protest against the war in Vietnam. In the United States students receiving military summons, defiantly burned them. <...> But the Vietnam war was only considered as one of the signs of degeneracy of the system and as a pretext for mobilizing against it. <...> Another slogan of the student movement in the United States was equality of blacks. <...> The degree of aggressive arousal that gripped students, is described in the following, almost anecdotal case. The Professor was reading a lecture about the origins of Italian fascism, quoted: "the Present state is unbearable, the establishment stifles all life, the spontaneous hatred of the young forces of the nation must rise up to crush the decrepit system and release the main forces of renewal and revolution." Before he could finish the quote, as a flurry of applause rose in the audience. And it drowned the concluding words of the lecturer, that quote from Mussolini!