Many of the frontier Customs stations are most elaborate modern buildings with some good pictures and fine sculpture depicting the glories of the proletarian. revolution. This seems a great waste of money seeing that about 95 per cent of foreign travellers in Russia must be hardened capitalists Indeed, as I have already shown, you could not go there, if you were not.
Here is another sample. One of the beautiful old churches in Leningrad has been turned into what calls itself an *'Anti-religious Museum." With a certain amount of effort I can picture to myself a religious museum, but an anti-religious one is beyond my imagination. So I thought I would go along and have a look. When I got there I was somewhat surprised to find a notice to the effect that one was charged 50 kapoks for admission. It seemed about all it was worth, but when I went to the box-offüce Yo pay, I was told that as a foreign tourist I would have to pay double.
A rouble was more than I was prepared to pay for that kind of nonsense, and tried to indicate this to the elderly lady at the box-office But she remained adamant and I withdrew my money. Nor did I notice a single person entering or leaving during the quarter of an hour I was oyíside the church. It is cer-fainly a very strange idea: charging people to come and look at your propaganda. ej
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