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But the romance of China was soon eclipsed by the struggle to live, as a free-thinking foreigner, within the communist system.
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Stalin invited the head of the Comintern, the international Communist organisation founded in Moscow, to explain his thinking.
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After the communist revolution, the Chechens initially accepted Soviet rule, thinking the Bolsheviks would be better than the czars.
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