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Quotes from The New Russia — Dorothy Thompson

1893–1961 United States

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The hotels are entirely run by the Moscow Soviet, which seems to have picked its employees rather for their political reliability than for their experience or cleverness at hotel management.

The New Russia (1928)

In these ten years urban Russia having destroyed, exiled, or reduced to the most abject misery all representatives of that previous civilization, is without most bourgeoisie amenities.

The New Russia (1928)

Indeed, gaiety is singularly lacking everywhere in Russia. What is intense and joyful goes into pioneer work and not into amusement. Only in the company of young communists and artists can one find stimulation.

The New Russia (1928)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dorothy Thompson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.