The few Americans in Soviet Russia are not permitted to travel about much. One who took a long trip recently wrote to his friends in the U.S. a tale indicating that the people there are still more Russian than Soviet. Excerpts:
Comrades of the Cucumber. The best and the worst of the famous Russian soul seems to come out on trains. The camaraderie is overwhelming; the crudity unbelievable. At every stop someone got off to fill my canteen with vodka, which was then redistributed to all hands. We collected an accordionist, a Hero of...
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