6JFOR many years I have worked abroad in different diplomatic capacities and I must say there is still a great deal of misunderstanding about the great economic, political and social changes which are'taking place in my country, said Mr. D, Bogomolov, Soviet Ambassador to China, in an address on the "New Constitution of the U.S.S.R." before the China Institute of Pacific Relations, the Pan-Pacific Association, and the Soviet-Chinese Associ ion of Culture Relations at the Park Hotel on May 25. this misunderstanding could have been explained in the carly days of the Union, owing to the lack of genuine information from the country barred by war fronts from the onside world, this explanation was: obsolete now that the Soviet Government had normal relations with the countries of the world, the country was visited by tourists, and a number of books had been published The only possible answer to the misunderstanding must therefore be pre-Judie, based on hatred against a new social order.
Those brought up in the belief that the capitalist order was the higher form of human society did not want to sce Socialism, which excluded the exploitation of man by man, arise. This hatred was so great at at times it amounted. to. self-hypnosis against the country and any news concerning its industrial growth of power, This state of things was bad, although the people of the Soviet Union were not so very offended by the lack of attention, for it made them laugh.
must note with satisfaction that Chinese public opinion, with a few exceptions, has broadly speaking rightly understood the great inter= national importance of the new Constitution," he went on, Facts were stubborn things, and whether one liked them or not, it was better to study them and Know them Instead of remaining wilfully blind to them,
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