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A gripping illustration of this phenomenon comes from a personal account of a dinner with a Russian family in Moscow. As the conversation flowed, I learned about the profound historical grievances that shaped Russian society and their susceptibility to Bolshevik ideals. A father in that household, an anti-communist, expressed that the Bolshevik ideology, while evil, arose from people's desperate need for relief from generations of exploitation and cruelty.