— Factories are shut, mines are shut, coal's running out. Did you ever consider the possibility that the communists might win? And you and me, traitors to our class, will be put up against a wall and shot.
— As a businessman, I consider all possibilities. But, Mr Devlin, I'm not a traitor to my class. I am just an extreme example of what a working man can achieve.

On the other hand stalin was in no rush to institute revolutionary change, if at all. As in Greece, he recognized that the communists, although they'd often played a leading role in anti-nazi resistance movements, represented a minority element in most of these liberated nations. Never having shared trotsky's zeal for international communism, he had once remarked that communism fit poland like a saddle fit a cow.