THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND TWO RESPONSES

Ayn Rand lived during the Russian Revolution and that turned her into a fanatic defender of the Free Market Fairy. Isaiah Berlin also grew up during the same revolution -

"Well, I saw a policeman being dragged off to be lynched, I saw corpses in the street. I read stones about perfectly innocent people being condemned to death for selling matches in the streets. These were the sort of people nobody ever heard of, a few of my innocent relations certainly went to jail. I realised that the Headquarters of the Cheka in 1918-19 was a terrifying world, we were frightened of it even as children — a torture chamber, a hell from which few emerged alive."

- and became one of the last century's greatest liberal philosophers.