The question for me is how these three men with such different backgrounds and trajectories – Khrushchev, a Russian peasant turned proletarian who became General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party; Király, a Magyar soldier of old world Europe, steeped in aristocratic traditions; and Kolakowski, a gentleman scholar from Warsaw more attuned to Jansenist heresies than the perverse logic of Leninist dialectics – could ultimately contribute to the same goal: the resurrection of liberty in Europe.
而我的问题则是，为什么这三个背景各异、人生轨迹大不相同的人——赫鲁晓夫，一个出身农村无产阶级，最终成为苏联共产党总书记的俄国人；基拉里，一个老欧洲做派的，贵族传统浓厚的匈牙利军人；还有柯拉科夫斯基，一位来自华沙，对天主教詹森派教义比列宁辩证法更感兴趣的文弱书生——能最终为同一个目标作出自己的贡献：那就是自由在欧洲的重新降临。