RUSSIA: About Three Minutes

The guides of Moscow and Leningrad (all young women, Government-trained) like nothing better than to show weakly-protesting tourists through the hospitals where abortions are performed and the schools where prostitutes are reformed. At Moscow's school for ex-prostitutes last week the Soviet director declared: "Most prostitutes who come to us, and all must come voluntarily, are young peasant girls who have just arrived in Moscow from the country. They are glad to learn the trades we teach them—operating knitting machines and that sort of thing.

"Prostitutes of some education are much more difficult...

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