Rising Russian Generation Thoroughly Red: Lenin, The Idol of Millions By R. 7 Prvron-Gairrn And so through well kept suburbs, where there is an indication of at least pleasant surroundings, of houses charmingly situated amongst high trees, lo Moscow. Tt Is one of the effective features about this entry 1o tone of the most romantic capitals of the world that the hideous slums which provide the front doorstep for! 0 many cities do not press themselves upon the attention of the new arti There Is a certain graciousness about the welcome thus provided, a reminder, perhaps, of more spacious days, a souvenir of those times which many Russian exiles recall with a deep sigh of regret. Electric trains have been passing for some time now and nearly all the signs of the approach to a great city are to be noticed, until the train which has brought, us so many versis on a dreary journey comes to a stop and vyoriis its passengers on to the platforms.
The trains are bright with good lighting, chromium-plated fixtures and for the time being good looking upholstery, though it is apparent that the last" "named has. neither the strength nor the quality to with stand the wear and tear to which it must be subjected. 'The broader guage enabled the engineers to pro-due a wider coach, and the Metro should prove to be the straphangers' paradise.
It ig all so very nice, and so very new, and the pride of the Russians Train Neatly one Day Late It was merely by good. or bad luck that the train was eighteen hours late, giving the travellers in transit some hours In which to become acquainted with the seat of Communism's great experiment. The adjective is used advisedly, for whether this new order of things Ip to or not has yet to be decided, and historically "speaking the world is still too near the revolution of 1017, fully to have decided whether the present regime has come to stay, or whether within a comparatively short time—again historically—speaking—counter-revolution Is to make itself felt in the Jand. That must be a fruitless speculation until It becomes fa decided fact, and the time for that has not yet come, Consequently Moscow has to be taken as it is; as a city of olden times, where the new brush of the present administration Is striving to, sweep clean and to express its new ideology not only in terms of government, but in those sociological departments where effort is mast likely. to be immediately rewarded. Thus in the housing of the people giant strides are being made, and if the present rate of dealing with the housing question is persisted in, It possible that the ten-year scheme which is prepared for Moscow will bring a complete transformation 10 some parts of the city.
"Aan Beg Without Salt It is to be hoped, with some confidence that the historic sections recalling the past and providing an adequate setting for the present and the future will remain, Moscow without the Kremlin and the Red Square would be as an egg without salt. Moscow without its tragic cathedral of St, Basil would be without its most precious jewel. And yet beside these evidences of the glorious past there are the new housing ar-Yangements of tragically ugly modemnity, while beneath—the ground the bright new Metro a promise of what the government eventually intends for its capital.
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