During the past year it has become very much the fashion among tourists who have spent a few days in the Soviet Union to tell the wide world, as soon as they can get themselves interviewed, that the chances of a popular rising against the red despotism are simply nil. Everybody is eating. Everybody’s nakedness is covered. If you smile at a peasant or a factory hand, his reaction is an engaging grin. Not a word of criticism of the regime did the visitor hear voiced. so, whoever cherishes a lingering hope that a revolution within the Red Empire may possibly dispose of our anxieties is thinking not only wishfully but fatuously.
Maybe so. But what our guided short-term observers think they have seen and heard is by no means necessarily the real picture.
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