The fight against the “communist denialism” of Europe before the USSR: “In the end you will open your eyes”

Like a wolf howling alone in the middle of the steppe, André Gide persisted in the same idea until the end of his days: “Sooner or later you will open your eyes, you will have no choice.” You honest people will then ask yourself: How could we keep it closed for so long? The famous French author, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature a decade after these words in 1937, had just published “The Return of the USSR”, the essay in which he expressed his impressions of the communist giant summarized by its top executives. Until that moment he had been one of the most important and famous defenders of the revolution in the world