But the children laugh. They play as do even the children of the nourgeoisie, and sounds of merriment ome from the playing, grounds which sometimes are situated close to the railway, There was much opportunity for seeing and hearing this, for the second day out from Otpor was May' 1, Labour Day, a big day through-Out the whole of the Russias. Station bbulldings were decorated with por-walls of the Soviet leaders, inseriptions in white upon red and surround ed by evergreens, exhorted the faith: ful to a new trust in the new theo-racy, while at various stations rostra similarly decorated in a public open Space indicated that at some ime or other during the day the people were 10 hear the gospel according to Marx, fs Interpreted by Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin retailed to them' for the further strengthening of their beliefs, Perhaps they did not hear so much about the tenets according to Trotsky, but what does that matter so long as they were again fortified in the faith?
So far as we are concerned the day started excellently. During break fast two of us were sitting across the dining saloon from a Bolshevik army' officer. You can always tell a mem~ ber of the Bolshevik army, because hho is dressed so much better than the common herd and because if he is an officer his subordinates do not salute him.
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