The Archive · 1929

Bolshevist Humour

Mont readers by now have pro-badly forgotten the name of the Comrade who is on his way to Harbin to take up the management. of the Chinese Eastern Railway. It conveyed mo meaning to them as they read it, and no doubt slipped from the mind, until the Comra: in question should do something distinguished. -One telegram called him "Rude", which was quite wrong. No Bolshevist would be: that. "The real name is Rudyi—and it. means in the Ukrainian Jangunge "Red." A very auspicious beginning for the new order on the GER. Who will say the Bol-aheyists have no sense of humour!

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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