Forty years ago Maurice Duverger wrote, in one of the articles he habitually published in
Le Monde
, the following: "A corpse separates communism from the socialist project: the corpse of freedom."
When I read such a forceful statement, I was very far from thinking that two years later, due to one of the capricious ups and downs of this career of mine, destiny was going to lead me to be ambassador to two communist countries: the Bulgaria of Khivkov and the USSR of Gorbachev.
And there I could check
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