To one who has seen Russia, unblinded by the propaganda of a few "model" institutions shown to tourists and built by foreign brains and capital, this talk of "revolution" here to better economic conditions strikes terror to the heart. One recalls those great civilizations in history which were laid to waste and were then for centuries unable to rise again.
In the Moscow "Museum of the Revolution'', I saw racks and racks of photographs taken during the Russian Revolution and its attendant famine. These pictures of people who starved to death lying in the streets where they fell, cannibalistic views of dead mothers and babies with half-eaten bodies, and revolutionary scenes of stark horror and misery, were revolting past description.
The Soviet government woman-guide showing us these said she had lost two members of her own family in this famine and had seen worse scenes herself around Odessa. Later I shuddered as I heard her announce: "There is no use to waste time here in the Foreign Department (of the Museum). You people all read newspapers. You know what we are doing in China, Spain, and in your own country—our strikes and all. Our world revolution will start with China and end with the United States" In this Department is a map of the United States re-districted and with our cities renamed as they are expected to be "when the red flag waves over the White House." On this map Cleveland is renamed "Ruthenberg", Detroit is "Lewistown", etc. Since I heard these ominous words of our guide, the December 24, 1931, issue of "Inprecorr" announced that "the Soviet power has already been set up over a sixth part of China"; the Communist "Daily Worker" of April 5, 1932, in an article entitled "The Growth of the Soviet Power in China", gave details of great new Red Army victories in China. No wonder Communists demonstrate in front of Japanese embassies against "imperialist" war on China.
