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Yearning for chains: Ex-communist states struggle with freedom.(Commentary)(Op-Ed)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 19991015
Author:Beichman, Arnold

In Fyodor Dostoevsky's great novel, "The Brothers Karamazov," there occurs one of the most agonizing confrontation scenes in all literature: It is the Grand Inquisitor's speech to Jesus who lies imprisoned in a cell:

"But let me tell Thee that now, today, people are more persuaded than ever that they have perfect freedom, yet they have brought their freedom to us and laid it humbly at our feet . . . for nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom . . . In the end, they will lay their freedom at our feet, and say to us, `Make us your ...

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