My feeling toward Russia at that time was simply <…> that I've had from childhood and from before the revolutions. I felt that this was so mystical, so depraved, rotten a country that I wasn't surprised that they got a Communist ideology...<br><br>Source: Rand, Ayn. Anthem. 50th anniversary ed. Introduction, Leonard Peikoff. N.Y.: Signet, 1995. viii-ix pp.<br><br>Source: Chris Matthew Sciabarra. Reply to critics: Ayn Rand: the Russian radical — a work in progress https://web.archive.org/web/20000818081755/http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sciabarra/essays/rprtc.htm, 1997.<br><br>предисловие к «Гимну», 1987
