We frequently met at conferences, where it was always a delight to hear him speak Russian – a Russian that had the accent and elegance of Tolstoi and Pushkin, not the degraded Russian bark of Vladimir Putin. Like Király, in 1956, Kolakowski turned against the Communist party he had once joined in the hope, formed in the charnel house that the Nazis had wrought in Poland, that it would build a better world.
与将军不同的是，柯拉科夫斯基确是与我相识的。我们常常在各种会议上相遇，听他说俄语是一件令人愉快的事情——那是有着托尔斯泰和普希金式优雅的俄国口音，而不是普京式的粗鲁咆哮。如同基拉里一样，柯拉科夫斯基于1956年转而反对他曾经满怀希望加入的共产党，这种希望在纳粹波兰集中营的停尸间里成型，并许诺要构建一个更美好世界。