It appears to me that Russia has become a TRUE DEMOCRACY. Internal dissent is a POWERFUL MESSAGE and a great thing. Gene H., San Francisco

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It's like a labor union gone political. I want a revolution - not necessarily this ideology per se - over here just for the fun of overthrowing everyone, getting a stable job/ sanity and bringing my lunch without worrying about my status constantly and what dirt my peers can dig up on me and manipulate with, like that I spend my money on food because I never get full (horrible feeling); I'll leave that to the government if they have reason behind it, like if I were actually a heifer, and it was a health problem instead of merely expensive and something people can find morally wrong with me and see glory in themselves. I don't do anything else, let me have my sushi and my diet coke. Then they label me as having a rigid and "perfect" moral code and wonder why I go to extremes. Actually, Gene, if I said I am a communist or a terrorist (both are against our goverenment), I could find myself locked away in prison for a long time. Single dissidents over here/ their leaders are destroyed unless they have special social status like being a celebrity.

Did the Communists lose in the Soviet Union like the Nazis lost in Germany. Did the Soviet Union suffer the loss of twenty five million of their citizens under their Communist government? Could this atrocity have been avoided and Russia's population today be seventy five million more if this atrocity had not happened? Does Russia want this kind of leadership ever again? I don't believe a Nazi party is legal in Germany. Can anyone tell me why a communist party should even be legal in the Russian Federation? This is not in the best interest of humanity or the Russian Federation.

[An important document.] The Manchester Guardian. Thursday 2 March 1933. Letters to the Editor Social Conditions in Russia Recent Visitor’s Tribute To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian […] We the undersigned are recent visitors to the USSR. Some of us travelled throughout the greater part of its civilized territory. We desire to record that we saw nowhere evidence of such economic slavery, privation, unemployment and cynical despair of betterment as are accepted as inevitable and ignored by the press as having “no news value” in our own countries. Everywhere we saw hopeful and enthusiastic working-class, self-respecting free up to the limits imposed on them by nature and a terrible inheritance from tyranny and incompetence of their former rulers, developing public works, increasing health services, extending education, achieving the economics independence of woman and the security of the child and in spite of many grievous difficulties and mistakes which or social experiments involve a first (and which they have never concealed nor denied) setting an example of industry and conduct which would greatly enrich us if our systems supplied our workers with any incentive to follow it. We would regard it as a calamity if the present lie campaign were to be allowed to make headway without contradiction and to damage the relationship between our country and the USSR. Accordingly we urge all men and women of goodwill to take every opportunity of informing themselves of the real facts of the situation and to support the movements which demand peace, trade and closer friendship with an understanding of the greater Workers Republic of Russia. Yours etc. Bernard Shaw [and twenty others]. 33, Ormond Yard, London