Title | Women in the Soviet Union |
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Publisher | Workers Library Publishers |
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Date | 1929 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 67 pages: illustrations; 18 cm |
Original Item Location | HQ1662.W6 1929 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304548~S11 |
Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
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Transcript | SOVIET UNION 55 all foreign comrades. Hundreds of thousands of men and women workers in Germany are eagerly awaiting our return, to learn what is really happening in Russia. We have been here three weeks, and have seen much. We have been shown everything, good and bad. Beside the old, the remains of Tsarist times we see the new being built up by the workers and peasants of Soviet Russia. We have seen old factories built in Tsarist days where the workers were herded like cattle, where no regard was had for their lives, but only profit was the goal. The workers lived in wretched, damp huts so that the rich might live. But we have also seen the factories built by the Soviets. Fine and airy, with the most modern machinery. I do not know whether such factories exist in Germany; anyhow I have never seen any in the part where I come from. Many German women believe that Russians are stupid. But we have seen the very opposite. WTe were received everywhere warmly and with open arms. Russian women asked us about affairs in Germany. They showed such enthusiasm, greeting us like sisters, thirsting for knowledge, they were so anxious to learn something of the state of affairs in the capitalist world that we could not but wonder. We could see what real educational work has been done among Russian women. In Leningrad a woman called to us: We have the powder here—when you go home, set it alight! And I want to promise the women of Russia that when we return home we shall work our hardest among the men and women of our country to set it alight. Long live free Russia ! |