Russia, sadly, had no one with the moral authority to soothe people’s passions. Only Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov came near to Walesa and Havel in terms of moral authority, but Sakharov was dead by the time communism collapsed, and Solzhenitsyn’s ideas were too conservative, too tied to Russian nationalism, for him to become a symbol of democracy in a multi-national Soviet Union.
不幸的是，俄国无人具备道义力量来缓和人民的激情。只有索尔仁尼琴和萨哈罗夫在道义力量上靠近瓦文萨和哈维尔。但是萨哈罗夫在共产主义解体的时候已经去世，而索尔仁尼琴德观点又过于保守，与俄罗斯民族主义联系过份密切，以至无法在多国家的苏联中担当民主的象征。