Yes, we are living through a storm of dark passions… All that is vile and despicable on earth has been and is being done by us, and all that is beautiful and intelligent, for which we are striving, lives within us… In these days of revolt, blood, and hostility, days that are terrifying for many people, one should not forget that, through great torments and unbearable trials, we are moving toward the rebirth of man… Yes, now, at this very moment when people, deafened by the preaching of equality and brotherhood, are robbing their neighbour in the streets, stripping him bare… in these days of monstrous contradiction a new Russia is being born.
— Maxim Gorky, 1917
(Source: imperialscythia, via perfectnonfreedom)
