“In these ten years urban Russia having destroyed, exiled, or reduced to the most abject misery all representatives of that previous civilization, is without most bourgeoisie amenities.”

—  Dorothy Thompson

Source: "The New Russia" 1928, p. 24

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American journalist and radio broadcaster 1893–1961

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