MODERN RUSSIA

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 210, 18 August 1934, Page 4

MODERN RUSSIA

Hgw Tourists Are Gulled Ilya Ehrenburg, author of “A Street in Moscow,” who is one of the most prominent of Russian writers, has formally complained to the Soviet authorities. He says that foreign tourists are grossly misled and cheated in the most barefaced way. To give visitors a rosy picture of living conditions in Russia, says the author, the State tourist agency rentes a fictitious world. This envelopes the visitors in a false atmosphere of tawdry gaiety, while squalor and hunger are the ordinary lot of the Russian masses. Tho agency has special hotels, in which abundant food and dancing are provided to gull foreigners. Ehrenburg says Hint foreigners should be shown instead Hie barracks lor industrial workers. Young married couples, children, and old people are mixed up there, he says, without partitions, and all cut together in most insanitary rooms. They should be shewn also tho empty shops, and the brutalities of man to man, instead of being stuffed with bright .fairy tales.