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Page after page of The Dark Side of the Moon is filled with such stories. The author declares that they have all been carefully checked. Now & then she makes an obviously earnest attempt to analyze the Soviet point of view—to understand why a revolutionary government which inherited a "top-heavy, illiterate and decomposing" empire should think that any means of maintaining itself, however brutal, are justified. What happened in Poland, the author concludes, can never be understood in European terms: it was the application of old, half-Asiatic techniques, modified—or intensified—by 20-odd years of Marxist expediency and justice.