UN General Assembly
1953

31. We, on our side, are not fools. We have had some experience in the drawing of inference from history and from events. From the experience of the last forty years we have learnt some lessons. One of them is that totalitarian regimes always look — always, in the nature of things, they have to look- — more durable than they are, until, as in two notable instances, they crack irrevocably. They seem, while they are viable, to present an impervious front; whereas, in democratic countries, every small difference is magnified and emphasized to the world. Mr. Vyshinsky has himself taken advantage of this from time to time by quoting from scraps of newspaper clippings from obscure journals in democratic countries.