The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a return to capitalist relations with a catastrophic decline of industry and culture.
That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.
In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any other country.
It is therefore not true that the mere existence of the Soviet Union is capable of assuring the victory of the revolution in other countries.
The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.
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