1931 – Oct 14th The London Times
THE REAL RUSSIA - 3 Articles
THE REAL RUSSIA - 3 Articles
• 2nd set of Articles
Documents that Peasants’ Conditions had Deteriorated Since Gareth’s Previous 1930 Visit:
• A peasant “approached me and whispered:
‘It is terrible here in the kolkhoz.
We cannot speak or we shall be sent away to Siberia as they sent the others. We are afraid. I had
three cows. They took them away
and now I only get a crust of bread. It is a thousand times worse now than before the Revolution; 1926 and 1927 were
fine years, but now we dare
not oppose the Communists or we shall be exiled. ”
