The point of departure for Western students – freedom of speech and assembly, ideological pluralism, and a democratic political system – was, for their Eastern colleagues, a distant objective that they were unlikely to achieve.
El punto de partida de los estudiantes occidentales –libertad de expresión y reunión, pluralismo ideológico y un sistema político democrático—era para sus colegas orientales un objetivo distante que tenían pocas probabilidades de lograr.