English Translation

2 from all the countries of the world, who usually came to celebrate May and October, scattered sand in the eyes, leaping them like puppets on the tape only to certain points in Russia and at the end even writing resolutions, in which the "achievements" of the Soviets, which were taken into consideration, confirmed as such..wur-, of all these things the Šolonovich knows to tell. Two types of foreigners were especially welcome to the USSR or even invited. These were once writers, scholars, professors, politicians and well-known journalists. They came at a special invitation, such as Bernhard Shaw. They were led and supplied by a special department, the "Woks". Secondly, it was the workers' delegations who were looked after by the international trade union. From the perspective of their border crossing, the delegates were guests of the Soviet government, received all the tickets, were fed in abundance, were garnered with cognacs and liqueurs and even received gifts. They were only shown what they thought was right, and after returning to their homeland, they had to give lectures in workers' collections and tell the "truth about the Soviet Union". Their addresses and characteristics remained for all the time in the archives of the Comintern and, as required, were exploited one way or another. Tamara Solonevich writes literally: "Usually, the march route of the workers' delegations leads through the great centers of Leningrad, Moscow, Kharkov, and then they bring the Bolsheviks to give them the best possible impression, either in Crimea or in the seaside resorts of the Caucasus, or, in very important cases, to the coast of the Black Sea. All the workers' centres are carefully bypassed, the giant farms in Dneprostroi a thousand km far. The main thing was that the little as possible with the real Soviet life came into contact, that they came to see as few real workers and peasants as possible. For this they got as much beautiful nature as possible to see. The delegates forgot that the Caucasus and Crimea were already present before the Bolsheviks, who used them to boast of their own achievements. Wine and sparkling wine flowed in masses at the countless banquets in honour of such a delegation when it was on a Russian journey. Everywhere speeches and receptions with the "made-up" earth as a decorative background. Once a delegate found out that the Russian worker only received the half of his salary, met him during a visit to a mine women underground, or a cigar dealer charged him his dollar or pound five times as high as the Soviet authorities did, then the attendants in whose hands the delegates' "work" lay were quickly placed and "explained". When a few Paris women visited a factory, they asked the girls and women who worked there whether they were studying at the university and on courses, as it is announced in France? The Russian women had not yet noticed anything about it. When an American tried to convince herself that the goods were really scarce in Russia, she was taken to the state sales office for foreigners, where abundance prevailed, while in the other shops the sellers could only offer empty cardboard boxes. But the lady certainly fulfilled her duty in the world. When an Australian wanted to see a Moscow prison, she was visited by a prisoner - 3 -