"Mack Reynolds - After Utopia" - читать интересную книгу автора (Reynolds Mack)

was gentle now, тАЬTracy Cogswell, in all those years you
belonged to your movement, in all the years of
dedication, did you really think, really inwardly believe in
your heart of hearts, that someday it might come true?
That someday the millineum would arrive, Utopia be
achieved?тАЭ
A deep cold went through him. He closed his mouth but
continued to stare in disbelief at her.
тАЬTracy,тАЭ she said gently, тАЬyour movement was
successful more than sixty years ago.тАЭ
After a long moment, he said, тАЬLook, could we go back
to the house? I could use a drink.тАЭ
She laughed still once again and spun the wheel of the
hover-craft.



Chapter Four
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They were all three amused by his reactions, but it was a
friendly amusement and with a somehow wry
connotation which Tracy Cogswell didnтАЩt quite get. So
many things were bubbling through his head, so many
questions to ask, he didnтАЩt even have time for a complete
answer before he was hurrying on to the next one.
тАЬAnd the Russkies? What happened over there?тАЭ he
demanded. тАЬThe Soviet Union and the other Commie
countries?тАЭ
Jo Edmonds said, тАЬThe same as everywhere else.
Overnight, the contradiction that had built up through
the decades of misrule and misdirection finally boiled
over. It was one of the few places where there was much
violence. The Communists had gone too far, had done too
much to too many, to have been allowed peaceful
retirement.тАЭ
Betty shook her head. тАЬAccording to accounts of the
period, in some places it was quite horrible.тАЭ
Tracy Cogswell drew from his own memories pictures
of members of the secret police hanging by their heels
from lamp posts. He had been active with the Freedom
Fighters in Budapest, during the 1956 uprising against
the Russians. тАЬYes,тАЭ he said uncomfortably. Then he
asked, тАЬBut countries like India, the African nations,
South America and the other undeveloped countries. How
do they stand now?тАЭ
Academician Stein was chuckling softly. тАЬThese things
seem so long ago to us,тАЭ he said. тАЬItтАЩs almost unbelievable
that they can be news to an intelligent adult. The
backward countries? Why, given the all-out support of
the most industrially advanced, they were brought up to