Conditions in Russia
Sir, —I was interested to hear the remarks of Mr. Ormond Wilson, late Labour member for Rangitiki, upon his recent visit to Russia.
He was allowed to walk about freely in a limited number of towns but was not permitted to move at all about the country. He was disappointed at the poor condition of things in the places that he visited, and with the dilapidated state of so much that he saw. He was surprised to find the level So much lower than in England and France, and said that Russian, conditions could not even be compared with those of the West.
Mr. Ormond Wilson found a great shortage of material still, despite the 21 years that have elapsed since the revolution. Apparently, too, Russians do not rate their own produced goods very high, for he was everywhere beseeched to sell old clothes, and received £ls in English money value for his thread-bare suit. Possibly Russian military preparations are on a • higher scale, but of that visitors have no opportunity to judge. INTERESTED.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20032, 2 September 1939, Page 16
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