MODERN RUSSIA
MISS N. SCANLAN’S VIEWS. “There seems to be two fundamental errors' in the efforts at reconstruction which are being made in Russia, and they are the attack on the home and the campaign against religion,” said Miss Nelle Scanlan, the New* Zealand authoress, in describing her observations at a
luncheon of the Wellington Travel Men’s League on Friday. Miss Scanlan said machines appeared to be the God of Russia. She had seen a museum converted into an institution . for antireligious propaganda. Worship and faith were concentrated on the Five Year Plan.
“They are turning the home into a sort of glorified boarding house,” Miss Scanlan added. “You can be married for about two shillings and divorced for something like one and ninepence.” From the other point of view it could be said in Russia’s favour that it at least had a plan to work for. “There is something to be commended in the fact that they are doing something,” said Miss Scanlan. “When they find a theory does not work they are not too subborn to refuse to throw it overboard. Now they are giving graded wages and are paying a bonus to speed things up. It seems to me that in the end they will pick the eyes out of the. old capitalism, which, shorn of its barnacles, may produce a system which will suit them. I do not. think their ideals would fit in with British people. After all, they are more Asiatic than European, and many of their standards would not suit us.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1932, Page 11
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