Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Yin nazarin Hobsbawm na 2011 "Yadda za a canza Duniya" a cikin "The Wall Street Journal", Michael C. Moynihan ya yi jayayya: Yin nazarin wannan littafin, Francis Wheen ya yi jayayya a cikin irin wannan yanayin: "Lokacin rubuta game da yadda yakin da ake yi na anti-fascist na 1930s ya kawo sabbin ma'aikata ga kwaminisanci, ba zai iya kawo kansa ba don ambaci yarjejeniyar Hitler-Stalin, yana nufin kawai 'yan lokuta na wucin gadi kamar 1939<unk>41'. Soviet mamayewa na Hungary da kuma
murkushe Prague Spring an tsallake shi. "