UN General Assembly
1950

40. Those very same people, or their predecessors in power, directed the intervention in 1918, 1919 and 1920 against the peoples of Russia liberated by the revolution. They too, had their Chang Kai-sheks; they too dispatched expeditionary forces and refused for many years to recognize the Government of the USSR. But they have learned nothing from all this. They still hope, as they did then, that they may be able to change the course of history. They forget the words of Metternich, the founder of the Holy Alliance of European absolutist reaction in the last century, the defender of the old order, who himself admitted that the march of events could not be altered, and that his only hope was to retard them.