translate English to French: The kind of Communist who did little but drink vodka and boast of his exploits in the civil war was liquidated as a 'chatterbox'; after which people such as schoolmasters and postmasters concentrated rather more on their jobs. He himself was a youth who benefited from the regime's glorification of education; and he has always felt greatly indebted to that feature of Soviet life, to whose standards he compares most Western education unfavourably.
Slavophile impénitent, il vomira l'Occident «suicidaire» pour son intervention dans les conflits des Balkans, dénonçant là «une agression du plus pur style hitlérien».